I rebuilt my 86 5.0 recently. New rings, bearings, seals, gaskets, hone, etc. I put it all back together, primed the oil pump, dropped the distributor in and after a bit of cranking, she fired up but was idling really rough and died. I messed with the timing some and it never really got much better. I’m almost certain I have the distributor in correctly, I made extra sure I got it dropped and not a cog off.
I also have not set the timing with a light yet (won’t run good enough to do so). I double checked my plug wires and they are run correctly. I fiddled with it until my solenoid got really hot and decided to give it a break.
Not sure what to do at this point. It was running great when I tore it down.
2 things, I do not have my O2 sensor wire hooked up yet, and I was going to put a Jew EGR tube on but the one that came in didn’t fit so I just plugged it for now.
I saw some instructions on dropping the distributor on another recent post (doing it at 10 degrees marked on the balancer) I may try that but I’m open to any other suggestions. This is my first EFI engine to monkey with.
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I also have not set the timing with a light yet (won’t run good enough to do so). I double checked my plug wires and they are run correctly. I fiddled with it until my solenoid got really hot and decided to give it a break.
Not sure what to do at this point. It was running great when I tore it down.
2 things, I do not have my O2 sensor wire hooked up yet, and I was going to put a Jew EGR tube on but the one that came in didn’t fit so I just plugged it for now.
I saw some instructions on dropping the distributor on another recent post (doing it at 10 degrees marked on the balancer) I may try that but I’m open to any other suggestions. This is my first EFI engine to monkey with.
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