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davbell22602

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Glad to hear you got it fixed.


Its not so much that the emissions make it hard to get too. Its the dumbass working for GM who invented those motors with the distributor in back of engine near firewall and probably never tried to loosen it at all to see how much of a pain it is to get to near the firewall. Fords are up and easy to get too.

See the problem with these car/truck companies that when they change something they dont really know hard that change is when getting repaired til the service dealer shops start complaining on how hard it is to fix and losing money cause how much of a pain it really is to fix.

Here's another example those GM compact cars like the berettas, grand ams, etc. that had the 3.1L they invented it with the T-Stat hidden under throttle assy. and made it pain to replace. Now if the inventers/engineers of the 3.1L tried to replace one they would have moved else where that easier to get to since a common part that goes bad.
 

dirtyoldman

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Don't take me wrong,but,did you dis-connect the little tan wire before checking the timing?
 

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Yes I did, I was told it was on the fire wall, ended up being behind my glovebox, still wrapped in factory tape.
 

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Ive it for 8 years and never did it, aleays ran good. It's just been using more gas lately so I thought I would check it.
 

dirtyoldman

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Ive it for 8 years and never did it, aleays ran good. It's just been using more gas lately so I thought I would check it.

Should have better response too,which means less throttle which means better mileage.On my 454 I have to advance it from 4 before to at least 8 before to get it to run right,normal for a BBC not sure how a SBC responds to a little advance :dunno:
 

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Generaly if the timing set is worn out you see the timing mark jump all over. Mine was rock steady.
 

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