new build!

[Hot_Wheels]

Sexy!

[william]

Oh thanks I have efi so no need for the lobe.
Small up date.
I'm going to swap out the steering rack put on new tie rods and get this aspire swap buttoned up for the front. I plan to do a little right up on the rack swap it gets ask about every once and a while. More picks coming soon

[jason_]

Older cam is ground for mechanical fuel pump.

If you use a newer cam be ready to pan out ideas to pump fuel to carb


I've heated the end of the cam with a torch, and quickly pulled pin and punched in new ones.




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[william]

You guys were spot on.

Here's the back side of the gear.
I belive it was left loose At one time and wallered out the gear and bent the pin. I can't get the pin back straight.
I'll have to swap out the cam I guess

Is the carbed cam okay to use with efi I have one of each cam but the carbed one is out of the head all ready.

[jason_]

If it wasn't put on wrong, and bolt is tight, I'd double check why the cam encouraged hard turning.

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[william]

Thanks guys I have an extra gear and cam also, hope I can get by with just the gear!
I did see that it looked a little off I'll pull it tonight to inspect it.

[skeeters_keeper]

I've seen that happen twice. It's exactly as jason said - the cam pin is bent and also it has wallowed out the gear, the same as being off a tooth.

You'll need a new pulley. Depending on how bad the pin is bent in the head you may be able to 'persuade' it back straight enough.

[jason_]

Cam bolt that holds gear on. Why does it look raised a bit to the left? Gear cog turn on cam shaft?

If, if using a clock as reference, 11:58.

Looks bulged.. If it's not keyed right, you'll start wrong and end wrong with degreeing it.

Pop that gear off and douvke check the key. Follow that out and that's like 3 teeth worth of difference.

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[william]

OK so I figured out the slides it's a different style used by a reman company. I'm using the factory style slides .

Now my next question is about timing. I noticed this car was down on power so I went to check ignition timing a day noticed the disty was all the way clock wise. I put the crank at top dead center with the yellow pully mark. And the cam looked like this
looked lined up. So I put it back to gather (air box in)
And started it .... same thing , it would only run all the way advanced and with the timing light the white mark was about an 1/6th from the pointer. So I thought well may be the cover is warped and off a little . I pulled the lower cover and lined up the notch and cam, put it all back together and same thing.
I can get it to run good if I pull the 2 bolts in the disty and get a little more advance . So what's going on? .
Am I doing it right. The b3 pully is solid right. Reason I'm asking is my b6d is damped and has slipped over the years and will come no where near the pointer . You kinda just have to guess with my b6d on ignition timing.
Kinda hard to see here but that's the yellow notch with the white right behind it. Sorry I didn't get any of the notch.

[william]

OK so is did some work today on the car new control arms and bushings. Painted the sway bar gray.
I went to put my Rio swap together and hit a snag.
One on the calipers I got on a trade from Rick seams to be different than one I had even seen. The one small bolt is to small to go Threw the slide.



Hears how short it is


The top ones is the one with too long of a slide.
Is this possibly from a escort? I think it would work with a longer bolt.
Any ideas.

[william]

Not a great picture but it's all I have right now.
There 2 10mm bolts on the bottom or the ecu you remove these I like going threw the speaker hole with a long extension while the dash is in place after pulling the wires then just pull it down.

[fuddrucker]

William, do you happen to have a closeup of the ecu? Just wanting to see how it attaches to firewall.

[william]

Oh yeah I can wait! I had planned on rock auto, love that place .

[Spike]

And Google a 5% Rockauto discount code. I never order anything from anywhere else.

[Team Lightning]

Best place if you can wait, is to order from rockauto.com