Hey everyone, im new to this forum. To introduce myself im 17 and living in SoCal (southern california) I just recently bought a 65 falcon 2dr with a 67 200cid in it. I like this car already. I got it what i think to be cheap @ $2000. It is in fairly good condition, few scratches in the paint and other minor details.
Anyways... the engine ran like crap when i got it. The valves were bad, i mean rrrealy bad. sunk into the head and few burnt ones. i took off the head and had it mechined and rebuilt, $200 and like 5 hours of work, not bad. It ran very well (other than the idle, talk about that in a second) but two days ago after droping my sister off at the movies it was stumbling through the entire powerband. It would run, then miss for a few revolutions, then jerk into running agian for a few more revolutions and so on. Think of it like 'if' the engine was running fine, jamming the gas to the floor then instantly letting all the way off then jamming it agian over and over. The oil psi and coolant temp were fine. after stumbling home it started running differently. idle was normal and would only stumble if it got above 1.8k rpm. I checked to see if the advance was working properly and it was. but heres my first question, there are 2 springs in the distributor that pull it back from advancing at idle. one spring doesnt even touch untill the advance is turned quite a ways, is that normal? and if it turn and release the advance the one spring that acctualy does something cant quite bring it back to its full starting point but its close, does this mean i need a new spring? it went back to the same place every time so i figured that isnt the culprit (but it didnt help either). yesterday i got up early to try and fine the problem but it was running completely fine. From running like crap to running fine made me think it wasnt the fuel system or carb tunning. Does anyone have an idea as to what the problem was? i had a guess it was the coil, but i have no idea how to test it. o yea, i put a pertronics (cant remember the name haha) conversion kit in to remove the points like a week earlier so i took that out to see if it was the problem and it wasnt so its nothing in the distributor (i think).
If your still reading my long ass post , my idle has never been smooth either. anything below 850ish rpm and it shakes and misses (like i had a big cam or something) My timing is set to 8deg. btdc. What could be the problem? i cant think of any other info to post on this problem so please tell me what else would help.
Thanks everyone.
Moe~~~
Anyways... the engine ran like crap when i got it. The valves were bad, i mean rrrealy bad. sunk into the head and few burnt ones. i took off the head and had it mechined and rebuilt, $200 and like 5 hours of work, not bad. It ran very well (other than the idle, talk about that in a second) but two days ago after droping my sister off at the movies it was stumbling through the entire powerband. It would run, then miss for a few revolutions, then jerk into running agian for a few more revolutions and so on. Think of it like 'if' the engine was running fine, jamming the gas to the floor then instantly letting all the way off then jamming it agian over and over. The oil psi and coolant temp were fine. after stumbling home it started running differently. idle was normal and would only stumble if it got above 1.8k rpm. I checked to see if the advance was working properly and it was. but heres my first question, there are 2 springs in the distributor that pull it back from advancing at idle. one spring doesnt even touch untill the advance is turned quite a ways, is that normal? and if it turn and release the advance the one spring that acctualy does something cant quite bring it back to its full starting point but its close, does this mean i need a new spring? it went back to the same place every time so i figured that isnt the culprit (but it didnt help either). yesterday i got up early to try and fine the problem but it was running completely fine. From running like crap to running fine made me think it wasnt the fuel system or carb tunning. Does anyone have an idea as to what the problem was? i had a guess it was the coil, but i have no idea how to test it. o yea, i put a pertronics (cant remember the name haha) conversion kit in to remove the points like a week earlier so i took that out to see if it was the problem and it wasnt so its nothing in the distributor (i think).
If your still reading my long ass post , my idle has never been smooth either. anything below 850ish rpm and it shakes and misses (like i had a big cam or something) My timing is set to 8deg. btdc. What could be the problem? i cant think of any other info to post on this problem so please tell me what else would help.
Thanks everyone.
Moe~~~