Well, I'm sure most of you have seen my threads on the continuing saga of BABY's timing/distributor/idle etc problems.
She has been into 2 different mechanics and 5 shop visits and they made her progressively worst.
Well. I drove her over to my neighbors house this morning to give him the latest update of the saga and he pulled out the timing light, vacuum gauge, and some tools.
one and a half hours later BABY is now running great!!
She is idleing correctly at a good steady 800rpm without hanging up at 1200-1400rpm. She is fairly responsive off the line (the 327/365 isn't the most torquey motor at low rpms), and at the high rpm range there is NO breakup at all. When we took her for a test drive I started to push her a bit to see how the high rpms were running and instead of breakup starting at approx 5700-5900rpm she pegged the redline easily at 6500 with no problem and wanted to go more before I backed off!
What a relief to finally get this problem solved!
Amazing though that an amateur car guy in his driveway could do in 1.5 hrs what 2 "professional" mechanics that come highly recommended couldn't accomplish after all the time they spent and the monney it cost me.
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In case anyone is interested in what the cure was....he took out the plug from the vacuum line and as soon as he did the idle went back up REAL high with the vacuum line plugged into the vac. can. What he ended up doing was simply adjusting the timing by rotating the distributor and adjusting idle and keep making adjustments that way until she sounded and felt right.
The issue I have to deal with now is getting to the bottom of the oil blowback I'm experiencing.
The mechanic mentioned it to me when I picked her up last night but I didn't really now what he meant until we worked on her today at my neighbors. As soon as we took off the aircleaner we saw a lot of oil in it and the air filter is pretty wet with oil!
In a couple of days my neighbor said we will work on that problem and he will check the compression on all cyinders and also do a leak-down test.
He was looking for a pvc valve he said on the oil intake tube but there isn't one. is there suppose to be one on a '65 327/365.
Barry
She has been into 2 different mechanics and 5 shop visits and they made her progressively worst.
Well. I drove her over to my neighbors house this morning to give him the latest update of the saga and he pulled out the timing light, vacuum gauge, and some tools.
one and a half hours later BABY is now running great!!
She is idleing correctly at a good steady 800rpm without hanging up at 1200-1400rpm. She is fairly responsive off the line (the 327/365 isn't the most torquey motor at low rpms), and at the high rpm range there is NO breakup at all. When we took her for a test drive I started to push her a bit to see how the high rpms were running and instead of breakup starting at approx 5700-5900rpm she pegged the redline easily at 6500 with no problem and wanted to go more before I backed off!
What a relief to finally get this problem solved!
Amazing though that an amateur car guy in his driveway could do in 1.5 hrs what 2 "professional" mechanics that come highly recommended couldn't accomplish after all the time they spent and the monney it cost me.
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In case anyone is interested in what the cure was....he took out the plug from the vacuum line and as soon as he did the idle went back up REAL high with the vacuum line plugged into the vac. can. What he ended up doing was simply adjusting the timing by rotating the distributor and adjusting idle and keep making adjustments that way until she sounded and felt right.
The issue I have to deal with now is getting to the bottom of the oil blowback I'm experiencing.
The mechanic mentioned it to me when I picked her up last night but I didn't really now what he meant until we worked on her today at my neighbors. As soon as we took off the aircleaner we saw a lot of oil in it and the air filter is pretty wet with oil!
In a couple of days my neighbor said we will work on that problem and he will check the compression on all cyinders and also do a leak-down test.
He was looking for a pvc valve he said on the oil intake tube but there isn't one. is there suppose to be one on a '65 327/365.
Barry