carb issues

[rwhite65]

Mallory was in the car when I bought it, otherwise I will never buy their stuff. I plan to put MSD in when this one goes bad.

I wish I could tell you where my timing was, but here is the thing. When I swapped in the new 91 5.0, but kept some of the early style front dress, meaning timing chain cover, alternator bracket, water pump, I haven’t been able to find a pointer that would work. Reason being the pointer that works with this set up is designed for the passenger side if I remember right and I needed one for the driver's side where the lower radiator hose was not in the way. I couldn’t find one that would work though so I made one for it, but I must of been off a little. Last time I tried checking it, I was WAY off (like way past 16 degrees). So to answer your question, it was timed by advancing it as much as I could, then I would shut the car off for a minute. I then backed it down a little at a time until it would "hot" start...then I locked it down there.

I will show some pictures just to clarify. Also on a side note, no matter where I put the timing, I can’t get it to run right now. This is more then a "timing" issue. Something definitely has failed.

Ryan

[rwhite65]

Well, the plugs still look new and all the wires were on good, so I am not sure where to go from here. I went ahead and put in the new plugs, and only found one slight burn/crack in one of the plug wires boots. The crack didn’t appear to be overly deep. I checked it with the car running and no lights on in the garage, no arcing that I could see or here.

I am in a wedding this weekend, so the rest of today and tomorrow is shot with that. I will put a timing light on it for you PRWUD, but I am sure it will say something crazy like 20* advanced. Anyhow, I am not sure what it is, the car gets so few of miles, I am really not sure what is causing my good sounding stang to sound like a dang Honda.
Ryan