well poop... today sucked....

hasa68mustang

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well today sucked... heres the story... I was on my way to school, just like any other day, and I was maybe a half a mile tops from my parking spot at school and I was waiting for a light and I went to give it gas and it sputtered for a little bit and then started to go then stalled, so I pulled off to the side of the road and cranked it for awhile and looked down and saw I had gas and was tryign to get it to start and finally it started and I could give it gas to keep it running and eventuall yit was o.k. to idle on its own... so I figured o.k. it must have has some bad gas or something so I put it in drive and it stalled.. so I started cranking again and couldnt get it to start... so I called my dad and told him what happened so he came a little bit later. So he got there and I saw the motor was getting gas and we figured the msd must have crapped on me, my dad checked that we had spark... but we didnt. Fortunaley I left the old module on the car and left all plugs intact so we plugged it all back in and we had spark! but only for a second... next we tried the coil... I had my old one in my back seat and we hooked it up... still nothing... My dad ran home and got his portable ignition system and we hooked it up... ok we had real spark this time... and I got in cranked it and nothing.... it wouldnt start... so ok... maybe theres something wrong with the rotor... so we checked spark at the plug wires... nothing... ok it must be in the dizzy, so after awhiel we came up with the bright idea to even see that it was turning.. so once again I cranked it over... and my dad said to stop so now we narrowed t down some more, so I pulled the dizzy and had my dad look down the hole to see if he could see the cam spinning so I turned it over and heard him say a nice word he said to stop and come out here.... so I walked over and he said look athe the timing chain cover... so I look and there it was... nothing other than my camshaft... sticking out of my chain cover... so we loaded up gto a chain and puller her home. We figured out that the bolt on the end of the cam managed to break and right now I am unsure what all else is bent/broke... I am hoping everything is o.k. and it will be a simple pull motor go thru and reassemble... but I doubt it... hopefully all bearings are o.k., the billet dual roller adjustabel timing chain is o.k. and valve are nice n' straight, this means I CANT dyno my car tomorrow... goto the sonic show, OR go racing sunday... this sucks... but hey I did get out of school! and what a better time to get out the 85 lebaron convertible pimp mobile and build the WORLDS FASTEST TURBOCHARGED 6 BANGER 68 MUSTANG!!!
 
Dang man,
Sorry to hear that!!! But your right, I waited until somethin like that happened and I had to pull the motor, now its turbo time!!! Get on it
Matt
 
I honestly thought about it... but it would be hard to make a "package" as if it were to be like ming it would require alot of labor with the direct mount, and linkages... but the turbo stuff doesnt seem like it would be too bad...
 
hasa68mustang":3bou5jmc said:
... so I look and there it was... nothing other than my camshaft... sticking out of my chain cover...
:wow: That sucks! Sorry to hear about that.
Now let's see the pictures!! :twisted:
Amazing that the chain held up, or at least at first glance, could be fubar too.
 
yeah...lets se pix

nothing like that mazda was a few weeks ago

you are prolly lucky it didnt desintegrate and fly everywhere

good thing you WENET racing at the time
 
Yeah,well........time for the Small-Block-Chevy-Swap :twisted: :o :lol: :rolflmao: :hmmm: :mrgreen: :wrench: :smash: :nod: :thumbup: !! OO6.
 
I HAVE to see a picture of this. Not to say that it's not an unfortunate event, but I just cannot picture how it came out of there. Sorry that happend, I really hope that everything is okay inside. From now on, you have to park the car on Friday the 13ths.
 
80Stang":vztzxlee said:
Think of a cam sliding forward on the dyno at 6000rpm...

I can definately say I am lucky for that aspect AND the Fact that I keep going racing 80 miles away and I was going to goto a car show tonight about an hour from home but I cant now... Ill take some pics as soon as I get my camera back from my friend.
 
I am thinking that the distributor may have been partly to blame in the end.

A loose pair of retainer bolts, jiggling away.

A sticky distributor drive or worn bore/gears.

Eventually, a mismatch occurs and the distributor seizes. The spinning action of the cam's worm against the seized gear drives the cam forward and pops the retainer bolts loose.

This engine never quite got up to the levels of performance expected of it; hopefully the post-mortem will reveal a few more clues. BTW, the 50-link timing chain (only) is available as a service part. It's respectably cheap.
 
hmmm I am unsure about the dizzy being the complete problem because it was a brand new unit from about a month or 2 ago? and it was tight as trying to get it out was fun with my mini set of pliars in my car... we'll see what all can be found out when I take it apart...
 
I finally got my camera back tonight, I will take pics tomorrow/may take it aprat or something.... but I have to get the lebaron on the road...
 
well heres my hole...
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and dis bee's my new whip... but I dunno how safe it is to drive... and I couldnt help from laughing... I was representin' with my Ford ix hat...
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the exhaust looks like a fire extinguisher...
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Pimpin' gas pedal...
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I recently discovered I could jump high... so I had my friend take a picture of me jumping a 4 foot tall fence... no helping from anything...
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AND I GOT A CALL BACK FROM THE JOB I WAS HOPING TO GET.... AFTER THE DRUG TEST IM IN!!! WHICH MEANS TURBO GOES IN FASTER!!!
 
ledition":2yatobuk said:
What happened to your left rear rim on the stang?

hehe nuthn those were my burnout tires... I put em on both back tires to do another video but never got around to it...
 
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