High RPM Miss

[TheNicky]

Anyone? seriously! Im desperate...

 

[dangerranger83]

Did you get it tune yet? Saying yes or no will bring up my next though of action.

 

[strvger]

maybe crud in the carb floating around and plugging one or both jets from time to time?? might have gotten in there before you changed the filters.

 

[TheNicky]

No since my rebuild i have not tuned it...

I got it as close as i could with the back down as the rpms drop way...

about 1 1/2 out or so...

And i dont know... about inside the carb... looked decent when i rebuilt it... why would there be a bunch in there all of a sudden?

 

[dangerranger83]

This is what I would do. Go get it smogged and see if it passes. If not take it to a mechanic and tell them why it didn't. They will tune it to standards and have them look over everything to make sure the emissions is set-up correctly. Then get it smogged again. If it doesn't pass then have proof it was tuned by a mechanic and everything is there and set-up correctly and see what they say about that. L

Like I said that is what I would do. I know it may cost some money to get all of this done but you have to see where you stand before you can go any furture. Some progress is better then no progress.

I think its stupid to charge 60 bucks to have somebody stick something up your tail pipe, get in your vehicle and mess with it and tell you nope you didn't pass. All you did was waist your time and gas to be told nope.

Another thing see if it is throwing a code at you just for the heck of it when it starts missing.

 

[TheNicky]

Might have found the problem of the miss...

HOPEFULLY

There was the metal pickup from the cap and a ton of cap pieces floating around in the bottom of the dizzy.... cleaned it all out and stuff we will see what happens

 

[dangerranger83]

That has to be the problem. So basicly you had a new part fail on you. So basicly poor ignition = poor emissions = no passing emissions. Report back ASAP with results.

 

[tim95621]

Hey there,

I've been kinda lending a hand when I can on this truck. It wasn't a new part failure. One of the previous owners had a distributer rotor self destruct, it looks like he just put a new one in and just kept driving. The location of the distributer prevented us from getting a good look down into its inner workings. We pulled it off to inspect for damage and there was about a half a powdered rotor and its pickup in it.

On the plus side, we found and fixed a number of other problems while looking for it. Still have a bit more work to do, but it's coming along nicely.

Tim

 

[dangerranger83]

Okay. Welcome to the ranger station Tim. I will say that the distribitor is in a terrible location but from reading this motor was forced to fit in these trucks. Wondered why when I first saw these engines in these trucks why wasn't the distributor in the front like the rest of the ford engines but found out these engines came from Europe.

We are all trying to help TheNicky out as much as we can hopefully this find fixes the miss problem.

 

[TheNicky]

Will do...

Tim called the dizzy from the get go...

if only i listened to em in the first place lol i would have figured it out awhile ago haha...

But it was pretty bad in there Whooo!

Gonna test it on the freeway headed to tims i shall report back!

 

[dangerranger83]

Let hope it fixed so it can be smogged and see where to go from there. Mabey it will pass in its first try.

 

[dangerranger83]

Fix it? Was it the problem?

 

[TheNicky]

No miss still... YES i think me and tim got it...

Man who would have guessed... TIM did. lol

i filled her up today with high octane..


Now gotta do the license plate lights and brake light and ill take it for smog...

thanks guys for all your help and stickin with me on this one!

 

[dangerranger83]

Lets all pray to the truck goods that it passes smog.

Is filling it up with high octane a cheaters way of helping out to pass smog? Just wondering.

We are always here to help out.

 

[strvger]

the high octane might help. it is supposed to prevent premature detonation. not sure if the vehicle needs to be tuned to burn it most efficiently or not really. i remember back in the mid 70's to early 80's, when i was in service, they played around with mixing regular and unleaded 50/50. it really did increase the octane according to the Army study. tough to find leaded gas these days though. if i could, i'd be doing that mix for sure!