- Nov 3, 2014
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Hey all, it's good to be back after a few years off of here. I hope you can help me out.
I have a '65 mustang with a '72 302 in it. This past weekend I did a HCI swap and everything buttoned up nicely - really took my time to make sure. I finally finished piecing everything together yesterday and tried to start it up - turning over but won't fire. Logic told me since it was receiving air, fuel, and had compression it was a timing issue. Since that time, I have found top dead center a number of different ways. Each time I've found TDC it is showing up different on my harmonic balancer as far as markings go. I even had a reputable tech come out to my home for a couple hours and he was stumped. We tried multiple firing orders and we tried all the marks I had made on the harmonic balancer - still nothing. Any ideas what it could be?
Two notable events: 1) we got it to fire up and it appears to be idling at around 3k RPM. Turned the key to shut it off and the car wouldn't turn off. 2) got it to fire up a second time and the engine was running like a dog, not smooth at all and again the key wouldn't turn the car off. Neither of these two marks on the harmonic balancer have worked since.
Thanks in advance.
I have a '65 mustang with a '72 302 in it. This past weekend I did a HCI swap and everything buttoned up nicely - really took my time to make sure. I finally finished piecing everything together yesterday and tried to start it up - turning over but won't fire. Logic told me since it was receiving air, fuel, and had compression it was a timing issue. Since that time, I have found top dead center a number of different ways. Each time I've found TDC it is showing up different on my harmonic balancer as far as markings go. I even had a reputable tech come out to my home for a couple hours and he was stumped. We tried multiple firing orders and we tried all the marks I had made on the harmonic balancer - still nothing. Any ideas what it could be?
Two notable events: 1) we got it to fire up and it appears to be idling at around 3k RPM. Turned the key to shut it off and the car wouldn't turn off. 2) got it to fire up a second time and the engine was running like a dog, not smooth at all and again the key wouldn't turn the car off. Neither of these two marks on the harmonic balancer have worked since.
Thanks in advance.