Hello from Houston area

[ezcome-ezgo]

I like to imagine they are neglected dogs: They hold themselves together as long as they can, then when someone finally shows them some love they just let go and relax at last.

 

[bcomp103]

Well, new problem now. Put the new pull starter went for a test drive. Came back and before I turned the engine off. Just did a kind of a quick look over of it and noticed the pulley on the torque converter bolt was lose and let letting the housing wobble. Closer inspection I realized that the washers were definitely not issued by the manufacturer, or at least they do not look that way. So, probably going to need to replace that but I feel as though the engine now has more compression than I'm used to when trying to start it. So much that I already broke the new rope on the pull starter. Well, the rope itself didn't break. It just came out of the rubber handle but I feel more resistance as if there is more compression out.

Thoughts?

 

[panchothedog]

The washers on your clutch are not ideal, but are probably thick enough. Check to see how much thread you are catching of the crank. You want the bolt as long as possible without bottoming out. Load the threads up with blue thread lock, hold the clutch with a strap wrench and torque the bolt to 25 lb. ft. What you describe as increased compression is probably too loose of valve adjustment. On the exhaust lobe of the cam, there is a spring loaded compression release. This bleeds off a little bit of compression at the proper time and makes the engine much easier to pull start. If the valves get even a little bit out of adjustment, the compression release no longer catches and it gets very hard to pull start. With the engine cold, pull the rocker cover and set them both to .003". Should cure your problem.

 

[bcomp103]

The washers on your clutch are not ideal, but are probably thick enough. Check to see how much thread you are catching of the crank. You want the bolt as long as possible without bottoming out. Load the threads up with blue thread lock, hold the clutch with a strap wrench and torque the bolt to 25 lb. ft. What you describe as increased compression is probably too loose of valve adjustment. On the exhaust lobe of the cam, there is a spring loaded compression release. This bleeds off a little bit of compression at the proper time and makes the engine much easier to pull start. If the valves get even a little bit out of adjustment, the compression release no longer catches and it gets very hard to pull start. With the engine cold, pull the rocker cover and set them both to .003". Should cure your problem.

No luck with getting it to start after redoing the valve gapping. Compression is easy now but the engine wont turn over. Has great spark, but don't have a proper way to test compression other than the old finger in the spark plug hole trick. Felt pretty weak too be honest. Gonna go get a gauge tomorrow from O'Reilly's to test it.

The 2nd replacement pull starter feels a lot better. Got the new seatbelts in and got one side mostly done at least.

Maybe the engine really did build an attachment to that old oil lol.

 

[Rat]

No luck with getting it to start after redoing the valve gapping. Compression is easy now but the engine wont turn over. Has great spark, but don't have a proper way to test compression other than the old finger in the spark plug hole trick. Felt pretty weak too be honest. Gonna go get a gauge tomorrow from O'Reilly's to test it.

The 2nd replacement pull starter feels a lot better. Got the new seatbelts in and got one side mostly done at least.

Maybe the engine really did build an attachment to that old oil lol.

With the oil as bad as you say, I'd not be surprised if the rings are shot and there's tolerance runout throughout the whole engine.

Seems to me it was taken home an beat on without any respect or aftercare but I've never seen a simple oil change make an engine not run.

You're probably better off just sticking a 420 or other big block on there.

Sit that dead duck aside and hotrod it out for some future project down the line.

 

[bcomp103]

Got the seat belts installed and got the seats mostly done. Just going to finish the headrest which should not take too long. Waiting on harbor freight to get a restock of their engines before I grab a replacement. This was my first time doing upholstery so please be kind. I don't have a sewing machine so I just kind of did the best as I could without making seams.

 

[Denny]

I don’t see anything wrong with them. If you’re happy then so am I.

 

[panchothedog]

No reason why those won't work just fine. That's part of the fun. Do it yourself, and save a few bucks wherever you can.