Sounds like the timing's maybe a little advanced - retard it 3/8" of an inch
and see what happens.

Clockwise would be retard.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Ry <rylincoln@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the help folks.  I'm still troubleshooting it. Mark, I DO have
> my
> transmission filled with oil, I promise, rigged up a nice long hose and big
> funnel hanging from rear a/c grating worked great for filling it up.
>  Miguel, I removed the plugs and #2 and #4 were carbon coated more than the
> rest, I cleaned them all.  Scott thanks for the advice on raising the
> rearend and letting the wheels spin a bit to get the oil all up in brand
> new
> transmission, I'll be doing that once I get the engine started again.
>
>
> Here's a photo of my distributor and TDC settings.
> http://is.gd/aM4Dz
>
> And some audio of me cranking the engine with timing set by eye as best I
> know how. It fires just a little bit.
> http://is.gd/aM4Cs
>
> Thanks again to all.
>
> -Ry
> http://www.google.com/profiles/rylincoln
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Benny boy <huotb@videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> > When something work and you move/touch something and it's stop working,
> go
> > back in time and put it the way it was before. Double check what you did
> > that could have created the problem.
> >
> > Timing may be way off and it was somewhat ok with the plug wire not at
> the
> > right position. Now you need to make sure TDC is right and concord with
> the
> > rotor/distributor cap.
> >
> > What is wrong now is timing. Maybe the distributor gear is not align?
> >
> > The basic of TDC
> > http://www.benplace.com/tdc.htm
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:31:47 -0500, Ry <rylincoln@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > >ok so I made a mistake.  i had the spark plugs hooked up on the
> > distributor
> > >cap so that it was firing 1-2-3-4 instead of 1-4-3-2  even though I KNEW
> > >what it was supposed to be, just a late evening working all day shoulda
> > >taken a break mistake.
> > >
> > >Thing is it started right up that way though was rough and a bit
> loud(now
> > i
> > >know why!).
> > >Now that I got it all hooked up proper like, it doesn't want to start,
> it
> > >has sputtered a few times. :(  did i do something awful?
> > >
> > >I'm letting it rest right now and charging the batter(i didn't try so
> long
> > >that i let the battery go dead, just knew it hadn't been charged in more
> > >than a month)
> > >
> > >sigh... any hep?
> > >-Ry
> > >http://www.google.com/profiles/rylincoln
> > >
> > >
> > >On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:34 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> I hope you did manage to put oil in the tranny before running the
> engine
> > >> much. You can ruin the dry tranny without driving the van, since the
> > engine
> > >> will always turn the tranny mainshaft.
> > >>
> > >> Mark
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Ry wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Update:
> > >>> A few loose bolts on engine tin, timing not dialed in yet, coolant
> > system
> > >>> needs to be bled some more(not that hard imho) and DOH i forgot to
> put
> > >>> trans
> > >>> oil in BEFORE i bolted it all up and made it more difficult to do.
> > >>>
> > >>> BUT first try and it started right up :)
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> >
>

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Jake

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