You may have some wires under the dash on in the engine compartment that have shorted out, becoming melted togather causing that problem. Keep...
You need to ground it directly to the engine, then ground the engine to the body so the things inside will work.
I think the ign lock is just that, a lock, if I remember right, the actual switch is mounted down lower on the steering colum, and has a wire size...
how long did you let it run after the change, it takes a few seconds for the filter to fill and pressure to show. and not trying to be a wisea$$,...
sounds like the valve body in the tranny is locking up.
Could be a bad ign switch.
Your rotating assembly was balanced with the 164 tooth flywheel, but using the 157 if zero balance, won't make a noticable difference.
a 351 is externally balanced, perhaps they made it internally balanced.
any engine can blow a head gasket, and heads do crack, gaskets swrink with age and then blow, get a head really hot, and yeah it cracks.
when you try to turn it over, does it go clunk and stop, or just get tight? can you trun it backwards almost a full turn and feel it get tight...
if the yoke is too small to fit the trans tail shaft, it sounds like you have a c4 shaft and a c6 tranny.
the rotor is sopposed to point at the plug wire that goes to #1 cyl, at tdc, that is if you have the #1 cyl on known TDC compression stroke, not...
do you have power in the wire from the switch to the coil?
pull that plug apart and try strarting the engine, if it don't you know you got the right one, then do what ever you want.
it looks like a big hex nut against the shoulder of the clutch stud, if so, why is it there?
even if the choke wasn't closing, and the excelerator pump was working, pumping it a few times would do the same thing as pouring a little gas...
it sounds like your excelerator pump is shot, letting the fuel bowl drain out, tomorrow morning before you start it, remove the air cleaner, look...
if there are any dips in the lines all won't run out, after draining the master cyl, you could undo the lines there, and blow through them.
you're saying two different things here, first you say it revs up really high, then you say it will idle high before dieing. after it sits, does...
And when you take that clip off, there should be a spring washer on the other side, that is if somebody didn't put it back on. Its for keeping...
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