duvall172

Before tonight, I’d never even heard the words pickle seeder in my life. And I’m from the South. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I appreciate your input. Any idea where I can get a good, accurate, legible vacuum hose diagram for my engine? I have service manuals and a factory assembly manual, but neither really show much.

Absolutely will do what you suggest, Paul. I really do appreciate it.

Smells normal. It idles fair. Acceleration from 0-50 is a challenge. Shakes, skips, just terrible. After 50, it will keep accelerating with no shaking but an occasional miss. Stock exhaust manifold.

I didn’t mix up the plug wires. I’m positive of that. As for the wires, cap, and rotor, those haven’t been changed. Yes, it’s an old points style ignition.

I’ll get a timing light tomorrow.

Wish you were closer too. I changed the plugs last week so they’re fine. Surprisingly, the plugs I pulled out looked normal. I was really hoping they’d tell me something, but nope. Honestly, I don’t think it’s anything internal. I think it’s carb, vacuum, ignition related “outside” stuff. I guess if I replace enough stuff, I’ll get it going eventually.

Points

See, this is the problem. It could be 40 different things or it could be something simple. All I know is I can’t figure it out. Does anybody know a great SBC mechanic near Atlanta?

Haven’t tried a compression test yet, I have a vacuum gauge, but I’m not all that sharp with it. I wish I had a good vacuum hose diagram to see if maybe those are wrong. All the fluids, filters, and plugs have been replaced. Idle is sketchy at best. I’ve adjusted and adjusted and it either does nothing or makes it worse. If I could ever get it running correctly, I’d sell it. Definitely not the car for someone who’s not an old carbureted V8 expert. I thought “a chimp could tune a small block Chevy”. Well, not this one.

Checked and plug wires are not crossed. Haven’t checked fuel pump, pickup, timing or the timing chain. Engine was rebuilt right before I got the car in 2011. Since I’ve had it, I’ve driven it less than 1700 miles. Here’s my cycle: I uncover it, take it out of the garage, runs like crap, spend a few hundred dollars trying to fix it, nothing changes, cover it back up, back in the garage, and a few months later, I do it all over again. Insanity.

Might try that.

I need some big time help. i have a '72 Monte with the stock 350 and 2bbl. No matter what I do or replace, this car runs like crap especially from 0-50. From 0-50, the car will shake the fillings out of your teeth. After that, it skips a little but runs pretty good. I have no idea what the problem is or even where to start. The carb in new and I've been adjusting on it for 2 years with no results. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I recently replaced my 194s with LEDs too. The problem I have now is when I rev up the engine, the dash lights basically start flashing. As long as I'm sitting at idle, there's no issue. And ideas on what might be causing this?