Ok...I decided to help a buddy work on his 95 Gt today. We were doing an upper
and lower ported explorer intake along with shorty headers. For the sake of easily getting the lower intake off I decided to pull the distributor knowing I would probably end up having to reset it later. After getting everything back together and just trying to eyeball how the distributor and rotor sat, we tried to start it and it acted like it was out of time. Pulled the dizzy back out and set #1 at TDC and repositioned the distributor to the rotor was facing cylinder 1. Tried starting it again and it did the same thing. We decided to try it one more time and in the process of turning the motor with the crank bolt, it hit a "hard spot' and would not push past it.
I can turn the motor over backwards but as soon as you start turning it the correct direction again it seizes at the same sport. Im 99% sure these motors are non interference so the piston could not be contacting valves correct? No bolts were dropped into the intake etc... My only guess is that when looking down the distributor hole it appears a small piece is cracked where the bottom of the distributor seats and this could have got caught up in the bottom end. However it could also just be the way it was casted.
I could really use some help on this one....any ideas? The only thing that was changed between being able to freely turn it over by hand and it hitting a bind....was the distributor being pulled out and re-clocked. Any help would be great Thanks, Patrick
and lower ported explorer intake along with shorty headers. For the sake of easily getting the lower intake off I decided to pull the distributor knowing I would probably end up having to reset it later. After getting everything back together and just trying to eyeball how the distributor and rotor sat, we tried to start it and it acted like it was out of time. Pulled the dizzy back out and set #1 at TDC and repositioned the distributor to the rotor was facing cylinder 1. Tried starting it again and it did the same thing. We decided to try it one more time and in the process of turning the motor with the crank bolt, it hit a "hard spot' and would not push past it.
I can turn the motor over backwards but as soon as you start turning it the correct direction again it seizes at the same sport. Im 99% sure these motors are non interference so the piston could not be contacting valves correct? No bolts were dropped into the intake etc... My only guess is that when looking down the distributor hole it appears a small piece is cracked where the bottom of the distributor seats and this could have got caught up in the bottom end. However it could also just be the way it was casted.
I could really use some help on this one....any ideas? The only thing that was changed between being able to freely turn it over by hand and it hitting a bind....was the distributor being pulled out and re-clocked. Any help would be great Thanks, Patrick