after 6 months of down time... Homer's heart is beating again!!!

Thanks to Mark Zana for his help with diagnosis! I was stuck for two days trying to figure out how to get Homer to run. checked timing, spark, fuel, timing again... did a compression check and found no compression. damn it, valves needed to be adjusted. adjusted and it almost fired up immediately.

Now, i hope the gearbox works ok... I might have to pull it as it's not shifting very smoothly with the engine off. hopefully it'll work itself out...thankfully i have another gearbox laying around, lacking a LSD though.

anyways, pictures coming soon.

 

man, how bad were your valves off adjustment that it wouldnt start?

 

and????

 

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ha! well, i was getting zero compression in every cylinder. Which meant the valves were always open.

I had the shop rebuilt the block and head, but didn't have them put the head on the block. I did that myself, which consisted of installing the cams and such.

Well, I never thought to check the valve lash. Now I know to do so in the future. Sucks as well, since it was my first valve adjustment ever... and I'm trying to learn how to do it, while stressing to see if the car will start.


lesson learned:
- check your valve lash if you have your engine rebuilt, if the car doesn't start

 

oh, the engine was rebuilt and were never set properly. that makes more sense.

 

congrats man, good to see its running. Cant wait for some vids of it in action