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im not feeling any love towards my luv....... everyteim i turn around somethings not right with it all i wanted to do is change the head gasket now its a full on escapade. i have no idea what to do other than pull; the whole motor and start over ....... it wont turn on. back fires in the carb. i thought i did it per the book but idk..... thank god for my family whos nice enough to switch cars while im doing all this....

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77-luv-stock (Selling or Parting out motor blew up)

75-luv mikado-V8 350 soon

Sounds like a timing problem?

yep thats what i think but i turn the distributor and it does the same thing ....

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77-luv-stock (Selling or Parting out motor blew up)

75-luv mikado-V8 350 soon

Do you maybe have it 180 degrees out?

Just to be sure you had it at TDC when you put the distributor in correct?

it can only sit in the slot in the oil pump drive shaft thing one way and i did it like the book says so..

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77-luv-stock (Selling or Parting out motor blew up)

75-luv mikado-V8 350 soon

Could there be even the slightest chance that the valve timing is off? Always go back to the last thing you did before it started running like hell... and since you changed the headgasket, that's always a possibility.

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1980 4X4 LUV daily driver, as stock as can be.

Classic symtem of valve timing 180 out. Double check----Turn engine till ignition timing mark is at zero, check that distributor rotor points to #4 cylinder, check that the line on the camshaft (behind the sprocket) lines up with the one on the rocker bracket, should be strait up. If not there's the problem.
Sounds dumb I know, but make sure the plug wire fireing order is correct.

Are you sure you put the sparkplug wires on the dist. cap correctly.
On my old boat I had the rotation of the dist. wrong. It was clock wise not counter clock wise, or whatever. It let out a few big pops untill I figured out I had done.

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OK, I'm over it. Where's the beer?

ya I agree with everyone else on this one. luv75/77 I feel your hatered on this one though my truck hasnt been much of a problem. my spark plug was heli coil and I didnt know. so when I pulled out the spark to change it, so did the heli coil . so it over sized now and I just keep jb welding it cuz i dont want to pull the head but waiting till I have the much awaited problems like every one else.

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