odd distributor problem

[jcro61]

Thats a bad sign if its smoking, did you check your battery, if no check it. either way the smoke is not a good sign. You need to worry about the smoke first.

 

[93blackthunder]

Its also making a weird whining noise

 

[DRAGGIN95]

Just for grins you should yank the distributor out, and try to turn the motor over without it, it sure sounds like you have some extreme drag on the engine.

 

[DRAGGIN95]

Also, valves being adjusted wrong will make this happen, I have seen it first hand.

 

[93blackthunder]

What do you mean being adjusted wrong

 

[93blackthunder]

Plus if I crank it without ditributor in wouldn't that throw it way out of timing

 

[DRAGGIN95]

if your valves are to tight then engine won't hardly turn over and and can make the starter smoke from the extra load it's trying to turn.

 

[93blackthunder]

Well I adjusted them according to chilton. Anyone else had a bad experience with doing it their way?

 

[DRAGGIN95]

Yeah, I hear that, but it doesn't take much for them to be too tight, you could try pulling the valve cover's and loosening them all up just a litlle and see if there is a change. People do this various different way's, but I will explain the way I do it, of course I am sure you followed what the book said about doing the first half off the valve's on TDC #1, and the other half 1 revolution around on TDC #6 and then do the other half, I hold the pushrod between my index finger and my thumb and rotate the pushrod as I tightening the nut down, just as soon as the pushrod has no up and down movement but it should still turn between your fingers with a slight drag tighten the nut 1/2 aturn more to preload the lifter and that's it.

 

[93blackthunder]

Ooooooooh I thought you were supposed to tighten them down till they didn't spin at all. Well that might help a bit. Now tdc is when the mark on the crank pulley is matched with the middle tooth of the tab and rotor is at cylinder 1 correct? Don't have much experience with distributor motors.