Alright heres the deal. I appologize for the book.
The vehicle is a 1968 Ford pickup. It has a manual 4 speed transmission, first gear is a "granny gear". The truck origonaly had a straight 6 in it and this transmission is what was behind it. The engine is an early 70's 302 with points ignition, a holley carb, a "mild rv cam", stock heads, an aluminum intake of some sort, and long tube headers.
I was given the truck to get it put back together after a paint job as well as get it running. I attached a jumper wire from the battery to coil (bypassing the ballest resister) to start it long enough to drive it onto the trailer. When the owner pulled it into my garage he killed it with the clutch and accidently left the switch turned on. It was left that way for about 3 days which completely drained the battery.
I charged the battery and it would simply not fire at all, I was getting spark from the coil so I decided that the points and condenser were fried. I replaced the points and condenser, the points are adjusted correctly. and I got it to start up, but wow it ran horrible. I checked the firing order and cylinders 3 and 6 were backwards. After I switched them it idled real smooth.
Next I decided to take it for a test drive, I backed out of my driveway slowly...everything is fine. I started to drive forwards in 2nd gear (remember first is basicly unusable granny gear). I had to give a ton of gas or it acted like it wanted to die with the load of driving it up the slight hill i was on so I decided to use the granny gear. I still had to give it tons of gas and had to keep the clutch half slipping to keep it from dieing. Then it died.
I rolled it back to my driveway and fianlly got it to start again after quite a bit of cranking. I got it to start by pulling the choke almost all the way shut. It seemed to run much much better with the choke closed liek it was and I could actually accelerate normaly starting out in 2nd gear. All seemed well so I decided to go faster, I shifted into 3rd gear and all was still well. When it came time to down shift the engine about died durring the downshift, and stumbled like crazy once it was back in 2nd gear. Then it just up and died. The choke was still in the same position so I know it didnt suck shut and kill the engine.
I played with turning the distributer and various choke settings and was only able to get it to fire 1 more time, I had it runnign at 2000 RPMS for about 30 seconds and it stumbled and died and its still dead.
What is wrong???
The vehicle is a 1968 Ford pickup. It has a manual 4 speed transmission, first gear is a "granny gear". The truck origonaly had a straight 6 in it and this transmission is what was behind it. The engine is an early 70's 302 with points ignition, a holley carb, a "mild rv cam", stock heads, an aluminum intake of some sort, and long tube headers.
I was given the truck to get it put back together after a paint job as well as get it running. I attached a jumper wire from the battery to coil (bypassing the ballest resister) to start it long enough to drive it onto the trailer. When the owner pulled it into my garage he killed it with the clutch and accidently left the switch turned on. It was left that way for about 3 days which completely drained the battery.
I charged the battery and it would simply not fire at all, I was getting spark from the coil so I decided that the points and condenser were fried. I replaced the points and condenser, the points are adjusted correctly. and I got it to start up, but wow it ran horrible. I checked the firing order and cylinders 3 and 6 were backwards. After I switched them it idled real smooth.
Next I decided to take it for a test drive, I backed out of my driveway slowly...everything is fine. I started to drive forwards in 2nd gear (remember first is basicly unusable granny gear). I had to give a ton of gas or it acted like it wanted to die with the load of driving it up the slight hill i was on so I decided to use the granny gear. I still had to give it tons of gas and had to keep the clutch half slipping to keep it from dieing. Then it died.
I rolled it back to my driveway and fianlly got it to start again after quite a bit of cranking. I got it to start by pulling the choke almost all the way shut. It seemed to run much much better with the choke closed liek it was and I could actually accelerate normaly starting out in 2nd gear. All seemed well so I decided to go faster, I shifted into 3rd gear and all was still well. When it came time to down shift the engine about died durring the downshift, and stumbled like crazy once it was back in 2nd gear. Then it just up and died. The choke was still in the same position so I know it didnt suck shut and kill the engine.
I played with turning the distributer and various choke settings and was only able to get it to fire 1 more time, I had it runnign at 2000 RPMS for about 30 seconds and it stumbled and died and its still dead.
What is wrong???