Mercury Mike
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New to these forums. I got directed here from some buddies at www.hotrodders.com :mrgreen: Anyways. I'm having a couple of issues with my 200 as it is, but also thinking about upgrading it a bit. I'll start with some history since I'm new.
Bought the car after Highschool with graduation money, wanted a '65 ever since I can remember and now my baby is sitting out in the parking lot! It ran for about 2 months after I got it and then the old engine gave out on me. I was dissapointed, but it gave me a chance to get under the hood and figure everything out down there (before I was real interested in wrenching, and more just wanted to drive it around), and give me a great chance to spend some time with my grandpa who's had a '65 with a 200-6 as long as I can remember (as well as a '56 Big Window F100 with a 272 V8, after he ran the 312 into the ground. After that engine keeled over, I bought a crate 200, still using the holley 1946? 1bbl, stock distributor, stock everything. After this engine swap, I fell in love with the wrench. Since then I've become a transmission R&R, spend all my time reading and learning, and can't get enough. =) This forum is great and I think I might have found a great new home for information!
The problem: My engine was running great once we got it fired up. I broke it in myself and everything, ran great. Ran real well for about 6 months, when my head gasket went out. I pulled the head and had it remachined because it was a little warped, new felpro gasket, sealed it back up. 3 months later, the gasket went out again. My timing was too far advanced and kept blowing out the #5 cyl. I fixed it. Now when I start the car in the morning, it rumbles and rattles like crazy, unless I give it a little gas, then it doesn't rumble for a second, and then starts rumbling again until I give it gas. When it warms up and I drive for about 10 minutes, I can come to a stop and it just vibrates instead of rumbles. If I hold the gas pedal down, it will sparatically go thump thump thump then go vroom again then thump back and forth, and it doesn't even out. I have a new distributor cap, wires, fuel pump, and stock coil. Still using the old distributor (which I might switch to a duraspark II after reading a recent post with a great guide), and the old holley carb 1bbl that's on there. I get black smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe when I hit the gas.
The question: How do I fix this rattle and rumble, and can I get rid of the vibration at idle under load? Once I get this taken care of, then if anything else comes up I can get on that. Thanks for your help guys. Also, I am thinking about doing some performance modding to my engine, but that 's for after I get all the kinks out of the running of the engine first. =) This is my first car, and I love it like crazy. I appreciate any responses, and sorry for the long first post.
~Mike
Bought the car after Highschool with graduation money, wanted a '65 ever since I can remember and now my baby is sitting out in the parking lot! It ran for about 2 months after I got it and then the old engine gave out on me. I was dissapointed, but it gave me a chance to get under the hood and figure everything out down there (before I was real interested in wrenching, and more just wanted to drive it around), and give me a great chance to spend some time with my grandpa who's had a '65 with a 200-6 as long as I can remember (as well as a '56 Big Window F100 with a 272 V8, after he ran the 312 into the ground. After that engine keeled over, I bought a crate 200, still using the holley 1946? 1bbl, stock distributor, stock everything. After this engine swap, I fell in love with the wrench. Since then I've become a transmission R&R, spend all my time reading and learning, and can't get enough. =) This forum is great and I think I might have found a great new home for information!
The problem: My engine was running great once we got it fired up. I broke it in myself and everything, ran great. Ran real well for about 6 months, when my head gasket went out. I pulled the head and had it remachined because it was a little warped, new felpro gasket, sealed it back up. 3 months later, the gasket went out again. My timing was too far advanced and kept blowing out the #5 cyl. I fixed it. Now when I start the car in the morning, it rumbles and rattles like crazy, unless I give it a little gas, then it doesn't rumble for a second, and then starts rumbling again until I give it gas. When it warms up and I drive for about 10 minutes, I can come to a stop and it just vibrates instead of rumbles. If I hold the gas pedal down, it will sparatically go thump thump thump then go vroom again then thump back and forth, and it doesn't even out. I have a new distributor cap, wires, fuel pump, and stock coil. Still using the old distributor (which I might switch to a duraspark II after reading a recent post with a great guide), and the old holley carb 1bbl that's on there. I get black smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe when I hit the gas.
The question: How do I fix this rattle and rumble, and can I get rid of the vibration at idle under load? Once I get this taken care of, then if anything else comes up I can get on that. Thanks for your help guys. Also, I am thinking about doing some performance modding to my engine, but that 's for after I get all the kinks out of the running of the engine first. =) This is my first car, and I love it like crazy. I appreciate any responses, and sorry for the long first post.
~Mike
