With a complete tune up and the Webber on it, to full pumps of the gas pedal and it should fire up in about 1/2-1 full turn of the motor. Even in winter time. They are some quick starting trucks.
Okay, so my buddy wanted to do the timing on the 81. I said sure, pull it into my shop, use my tools, whatever! I just love working on these things now.
Ahem. Everything is going fine. Break the engine down, etc etc..
Then we start reassembly. Now I'm no expert, but I like to follow instructions and double check everything. I'm cleaning something up and he calls me over and asks why the oil pump spline gear isn't going on. Well it was backwards. I had to pull up a diagram to convince him. That gets fixed. It starts getting late and I had a woman to tend to so I dip out. Next morning we meet up and he's about to put the valve cover on. I said "have you rotated the engine by hand to make sure everything turns freely?", And after a heated argument he reluctantly climbs under and starts spinning the crank bolt. *POP* huh, the engine is locked up. No give. I told him to take everything apart and find out why or he'll be kissing this very high compression engine goodbye. Seriously this engine is in amazing shape. I leave again and come back to find out that he had the crankshaft timing gear backwards causing it to bind and snap a tooth off. That gets fixed. Put it back together. Same problem with engine not turning completely free. He gets frustrated and forgets the timing cover bolt on top and BREAKS the cover trying to pry it off. Lol. Goes and buys a Dorman cover and I immediately grap a few bolts to show him that Chinese crap is just that - they don't go through the cover. So I sell him a cover off of a junk engine that some teens build and clean all of the excessive silicone off while he drops the oil pan. Then he tells me that he broke the part of the HG that goes over the timing cover. I stop what I'm doing and tell him that I'm not doing anything until he buys a head gasket. He insists that he can use ultra black in place of a gasket. At this point I'm just hanging around and chain smoking / listening to music. He asks if I'm ready to fire it up a while later and I'm sure. Let's do it. Right after we crank it up I get out and show him the water and oil mixing together and leaking at the timing cover.
Engine started dieseling pretty bad so I'm trying to get that under control now. So far I've set the timing to 0° instead of 5° and it runs better, I've put higher octane fuel in it and that helped, and I poured a whole can of seafoam into the intake while holding the throttle open. After doing all of this, she's running extremely well, but still dieseling. Not as often, or as bad, but I think it's time for a fuel cutoff solenoid. I have not touched the Weber since I installed it.
After a few minutes of consideration I decided that I should indeed touch the Weber and after following the best lean mixture instructions I've got it tuned to what I think is correct. Now that I've checked everything I can and adjusted all of the free stuff. Well not free. The paid for stuff. I will buy a solenoid if it diesels one more time. Not messing my timing chain up over a $35 part.
Raise?! They still do that in this country? Cheers man!
an old 86 i had with the Weber did the same thing. Id have to ease the clutch to shut it off. I put a fuel pressure reg at 4 to 4.5 lbs and never had an issue again.
Raise?! They still do that in this country? Cheers man!
an old 86 i had with the Weber did the same thing. Id have to ease the clutch to shut it off. I put a fuel pressure reg at 4 to 4.5 lbs and never had an issue again.
P.S. How far are you from Rainbow City?
again, congrats on the $$$
Thanks. I been doing the job for 7 months and they finally decided to pay me for it lol.
Friday!!!!! I am picking up a 1985 4WD Pickup for a cool $1000. A tree fell on the cab :/ but! I have the white cab to put on it. I won't have much in this truck at all and it already runs and drives. I say that I'm gonna sell it and fund some goodies for my 84 but I'm not sure. I can make an easy $1000-1500 on it when I get through with it. That + initial cost could cover getting my engine overhauled by a guy in Atlanta that machines and builds Toyotas. .30 over, bigger valves, a nice little cam... Oh man I'm talking myself into it!
Really bad ones from the Craigslist ad. I'll definitely post some when I pick it up. I think it's got some dealer installed decals on it. They used to put all kinds of whacky stuff on back then lol
