Idleing problem!

[xYoung347x]

Well I got the motor to turn over but it sounds like ASS! The best way to describe is, a ****ed up lawnmower that you keep pulling on to try to start up and dies on you and its 10x louder. the car is making a loud poping noise, it is backfiring, it will not hold idle, and It will revup and die. It sounds real aweful. It would jump to like 3k rpm and dies. I think its the distributor, I think Im stapping it wrong. I stabbed the distributor like 20 times... same result. I put number 1 at TDC on the compression stroke and put the distributor in with the rotor pointing twoard number 1 on the cap. If I advanced or retarded the timing it would not do anything. I have checked the vacum lines and the firing order. It has a new starter, cap, rotor, distributor, coil, plugs and wires. Why wont it idle?

 

[VIPERn94Five-0]

turn the motor over by hand till the 10* mark is lined up with the timing pointer....then pop the cap off...where is the rotor pointed??...also did you remove the spout before doing the timing??


Anthony

 

[DavidF]

You might be 180 degrees off. Double check TDC.

 

[xYoung347x]

We would feel #1 for the compression stroke and then put the balancer to 0 on the timing pointer. When we stabbed the distributor I would point the rotor towards #1 on the cap and I did this like 20 times but still no luck.

 

[StormTrooper]

what block are you using i have heard of some lincoln and merc blocks doing this---also is the filter under the intake(in the back) clogged or missing?

 

[mytight95]

did you put in a cam with a 351 firing order by accident, if you do not know then what kind of cam is it.

jason

a lot of performance cams have the 351 firing order, they say it is more efficient.