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I'll introduce myself, being it's my first post:
My name is Luke, and I'm from central Iowa. I recently bought a 1954 Ford Mainline.
It's all stock, 223, 3 spd manual, 65xxx miles.
If you would like to see it, visit here:
http://www.whiteboard.net/~luke/54ford/june_9th/index.html
Here's a rundown of my issues:
My car hasn't run correctly since I bought it (as in never)
I've been trying everything I can think of to get my '54 223 engine to idle correctly. It runs rough and won't idle with the choke off.
Anyway, with the choke on only slightly, and idling low, I pull about 18" of vacuum out of the intake manifold port (windshield wipers)
This seems a bit low, but the needle isn't fluctuating as if I had burned valves or anything, so I'm guessing piston rings are worn?
Compression is about 110 psi in all cylinders.
The engine refuses to run right, and I've done about everything I know how, trying to get it idling. The carb has been taken apart and cleaned about 4 times now, I just put on a new intake/exhaust manifold gasket. I've got totally new ignition components (coil, wires, rotor, cap, condenser)
The thing likes to run REALLY advanced. I'm talking way off scale, as in 20 degrees or more. I have the distributor turned as far as it will go until the vacuum advance is resting against the engine block...
And as far as I can tell, the dizzy is NOT off by a tooth, because at TDC the rotor is pointing at #1...
I've tried to find an obvious vaccum leak and can't track anything down. I'm wondering if the face of the head or the manifolds are warped though.. I'm getting inconclusive tests when I spray WD 40 on the manifold while the car is running.
So, I'm askin for help
I can upload some crappy video of the vacuum gauge while the car was running.
My name is Luke, and I'm from central Iowa. I recently bought a 1954 Ford Mainline.
It's all stock, 223, 3 spd manual, 65xxx miles.
If you would like to see it, visit here:
http://www.whiteboard.net/~luke/54ford/june_9th/index.html
Here's a rundown of my issues:
My car hasn't run correctly since I bought it (as in never)
I've been trying everything I can think of to get my '54 223 engine to idle correctly. It runs rough and won't idle with the choke off.
Anyway, with the choke on only slightly, and idling low, I pull about 18" of vacuum out of the intake manifold port (windshield wipers)
This seems a bit low, but the needle isn't fluctuating as if I had burned valves or anything, so I'm guessing piston rings are worn?
Compression is about 110 psi in all cylinders.
The engine refuses to run right, and I've done about everything I know how, trying to get it idling. The carb has been taken apart and cleaned about 4 times now, I just put on a new intake/exhaust manifold gasket. I've got totally new ignition components (coil, wires, rotor, cap, condenser)
The thing likes to run REALLY advanced. I'm talking way off scale, as in 20 degrees or more. I have the distributor turned as far as it will go until the vacuum advance is resting against the engine block...
And as far as I can tell, the dizzy is NOT off by a tooth, because at TDC the rotor is pointing at #1...
I've tried to find an obvious vaccum leak and can't track anything down. I'm wondering if the face of the head or the manifolds are warped though.. I'm getting inconclusive tests when I spray WD 40 on the manifold while the car is running.
So, I'm askin for help
I can upload some crappy video of the vacuum gauge while the car was running.