So I was just thinking and realized something that the PO told me- the tranny that they rebuilt to drop in before I got the car was out of a truck. I don't know what truck, what year, etc, but he said they had to remove a counterweight, or something to get it to work.
Did the truck C4s have different ratios? I'm running the stock 2.8 rear with the stock wheels, 200, and just swapped out to a 1940, but am still having slow acceleration and no real bottom end torque out of the engine. I'm kinda grasping at straws here- it's driveable now as-is, so far, but there's no acceleration. Once I get over about 50MPH, it pulls up quickly to 90 and feels like she could go higher without effort.
Something else- I have a '75 Benz 300D that had the same problem- I adjusted the valves and she opened wide up in comparison. Do these engines suffer from too-tight valve clearance issues?
Trans? Cam? Carb? Valvetrain? Operator?
Any ideas?
Did the truck C4s have different ratios? I'm running the stock 2.8 rear with the stock wheels, 200, and just swapped out to a 1940, but am still having slow acceleration and no real bottom end torque out of the engine. I'm kinda grasping at straws here- it's driveable now as-is, so far, but there's no acceleration. Once I get over about 50MPH, it pulls up quickly to 90 and feels like she could go higher without effort.
Something else- I have a '75 Benz 300D that had the same problem- I adjusted the valves and she opened wide up in comparison. Do these engines suffer from too-tight valve clearance issues?
Trans? Cam? Carb? Valvetrain? Operator?
Any ideas?
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