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V6 sluggish

Discussion in 'Early CJ5 and CJ6 Tech' started by sparky, Oct 31, 2005.

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    mb82

    mb82 I feel great!

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    this story sounds to me like the start of a bad joke:
    How many Bio Majors does it take to get an oddfire buick V-6 running right?
    ;)
    R)
     
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    sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

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    Hey that does sound bad, Plant Pathologists sound much better thank you. ;)

    My wife works in Biology, that's across the street. ;)
     
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    mb82

    mb82 I feel great!

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    Well sorry ;) In our program those two are in the same large building. Anyway I thought MOP was a genetist... which yet again is in the Tranny center.
     
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    sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

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    Splitting hairs I guess, but we're in the School of Ag not Arts and Sciences...
     
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    w3srl

    w3srl All-around swell dude Staff Member

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    Wheat geeks......R) R) R)
     
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    sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

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    Yeh? Well you can just, just, just go back to looking at your Harleys!

    Somehow that doesn't sound right. R)
     
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    mb82

    mb82 I feel great!

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    I hope you are not lumping me with those people ;) ... we here at VCU study the human body and the ecology of Va. Well that and a little corn here and there :D
     
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    hudsonhawk

    hudsonhawk Well-Known Member

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    I did the same thing when I put my 258 back together. I swore up and down it was at TDC on the compression stroke. Turns out I was 180* out and it was backfiring through the carb... (even fire obviously runs different.) You obviously made the same mistake I did. You set up the timing with the #1 TDC on the exhaust/intake stroke.
     
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    sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

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    I'll blame it on MOP, he was my "Yup, it's on the compression stroke, thumb over the spark plug hole" guy. ;)
     
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    Mcruff

    Mcruff Earlycj5 Machinist

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    If you set the timing when you put on the timing set, you can't do this. On mine when the timing mark was facing up, the number 1 cylinder was at top dead center and then when you line the cam up properly the cam is on the compression stroke with both valves closed.
     
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    sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

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    Perhaps I was on the exhaust stroke, the marks lined up but the timing gear on the cam was pointed down with the mark on my crank pointed up so they met each other.

    Not really any way to screw that up anyway due to the key on the cam.
     
    sparky, Nov 1, 2005
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    hudsonhawk

    hudsonhawk Well-Known Member

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    You can if you don't put the distributer on until after you put the timing cover on and done some other messing around. Any, That is my story and I am sticking to it. :D
     
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    Mcruff

    Mcruff Earlycj5 Machinist

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    Sorry Sparky I was anal on my engine when it was rebuilt I can time my engine or look at the distributor and tell you if its moved as I have ascribed mark on the timing cover that matches one on the mallory dual point. Its the toolmaker in me leaving nothing to chance.
     
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    sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

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    What are you sorry for? I thought I was pretty picky. I just learned a new way to be picky. ;)
     
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    sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

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    BTW, the drive home was very different than the drive to work. :twisted:
     
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    jpflat2a

    jpflat2a what's that noise?

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    push you back in the seat, did it ?
     
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    sparky

    sparky Sandgroper Staff Member Founder

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    A wee bit. I felt like I was 16 again. R)
     
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    w3srl

    w3srl All-around swell dude Staff Member

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    Jeep wrenchin' at werk huh? R)
     
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    MOP

    MOP Active Member

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    we don't really werk.....don't let Sparky try to convince you otherwise.
     
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    coby61

    coby61 Stupidiotic Member

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    no research plots to survey today????
     
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