I went to start it and it would fire right up, seemed like it wanted to run for a second, then it would just die. I decided it's an ignition thing and thought I was probably off a tooth on the distributor. I'm getting really good at pulling the coil and distributor all at this point. Sure enough it was off a tooth, oh and I left the cam position sensor connector off. I even looked at the spark advance output on my scan tool and it said zero, which I didn't think much of at the time but should have gone, duh! you forgot something. This iteration went pretty quick though, I had it all timed and back together in probably 30 minutes. That and I put hose clamps on the two power steering return lines I forgot and were leaking.
Turned the key and it fired right up and purred nicely. My son comes in and says, "why's it so quiet?". I said because you're used to hearing it running like crap!
Topped off the antifreeze and trans fluid, but was out of power steering fluid. Put the transfer case in neutral and ran through all the gears. Didn't hear anything weird, so I re-engaged it and put it in reverse and forward. Still seemed good.
June 26, 2019 it officially moves under its own power again, a little over two years since throwing a rod through the oil pan.
Backed it out and washed off all the power steering fluid and antifreeze I spilled. Pulled it back in and parked it.
My nice looking self rebuilt alternator doesn't seem to be working, so I'm going to just go buy one and get some more power steering fluid next.
Definitely feeling much better. I'm cautiously optimistic at this point. I still have to bolt on a bunch of stuff, finish putting the dash in and tie up a few loose ends here and there before I can give it a good test drive.
Turned the key and it fired right up and purred nicely. My son comes in and says, "why's it so quiet?". I said because you're used to hearing it running like crap!
Topped off the antifreeze and trans fluid, but was out of power steering fluid. Put the transfer case in neutral and ran through all the gears. Didn't hear anything weird, so I re-engaged it and put it in reverse and forward. Still seemed good.
June 26, 2019 it officially moves under its own power again, a little over two years since throwing a rod through the oil pan.
Backed it out and washed off all the power steering fluid and antifreeze I spilled. Pulled it back in and parked it.
My nice looking self rebuilt alternator doesn't seem to be working, so I'm going to just go buy one and get some more power steering fluid next.
Definitely feeling much better. I'm cautiously optimistic at this point. I still have to bolt on a bunch of stuff, finish putting the dash in and tie up a few loose ends here and there before I can give it a good test drive.