Re: oil pump priming postwar 327/288

Posted by JeromeSolberg On 2021/7/12 20:27:48

So I got the thing to idle today.

Sounds good. Figured out I had the generator hooked up backwards. Now all the idiot lights are off. My aftermarket gauge says 40 psi at high idle oil pressure(!).

Btw, I used Ross' method (from his wonderful video) to set the timing, and that worked good, except for one thing - when I rotated the distributor all the way "away", I find a "good spot" where it was rotated way counterclockwise, almost such that the vacuum advance was pointing at the 7 o'clock position. That turned out to be the "wrong one", and I found another position where it was pointing maybe at between 10 and 9'oclock, e.g. almost straight ahead. Once I figured that out and persisted, things got better.

Thanks everyone.