Ah much better, yep just needed to turn the little wheel. I have a bit more room left than that video but not much. I'm sure that'll last 5ish years.

 

Good God, what happen to this site ? It's like retro now...or something ??

Anyway, I had to do this to the 98 recently, -in combination with tightening the torx bolts. Truck wouldn't start, tightened the bolts, -still wouldn't start on occasion. Adjusted the pointer, never had the problem again.

Well, the way that went exactly. - Truck wasn't starting every now and again. AK reminded of the torx bolt problem (this was probably a little over a year ago). Went to tighten the bolts and found they wern't that loose, -I got maybe a half a turn out of them. Truck still wasn't starting on occasion, I'd have to screw around with the shift lever to get it to fire up. I then loosened the bolts back up, adjusted the pointer, then tightened the bolts again. Haven't had the problem since.

I know you didn't have the problem, thought it was strange that pointer adjustment was contributing to a no start. Perhaps it's a 98 thing lol.

 

Brew! Good to see you my friend! Been meaning to email you. It must have been you that I recalled having the torx screw issue, hence my post above.

So AK, that 3V runs like a top now.... until you give it the beans (WOT). Then it stumbles and acts like the timing is off - and eventually gets going and runs OK. Wish I knew more about the system than I do, because I'm not sure if it's the VCT components or just what. It runs so smooth at idle, I thought for sure it was all better, lol. He told me that it runs smoother now than it ever has before, which leads me to believe that it was a tooth off to begin with - and I just put it right back where it was.

 

Do you think that since you now have it timed correctly, that maybe the damn TPS might be the culprit? I was thinking, why did they rip it down the first time. All those symptoms come from a bad TPS also. Just a thought for you to consider.

On the cover, great choice. Fill and drain, cooling fins, nice. I thought about going that route with my Stang, but thought, like you mentioned, WHY? Nobody can see the damn thing. I'm all about the looks, but you have to be able to see if to "look" at it. lol

Brew.....welcome back Kotter. Did momma S/H keep you busy the last week or so? LOL. Glad you figured out that one out. I'm still trying to figure how the indicator holds the shift out of position enough to not engage the power, but I've seen weird crap with GEN 8's so why not? That almost leads me to think the shift linkage cable is weak or stretched, You can go under and reset the cable clip and make it one notch tighter if it does it again.

 

It might be bad, AK. I did remember one thing though that I think it might be. He put the whole thing back together using the little impact. Turns out that the screws that hold the coils in don't care for said impact, and the threads got stripped in the valve cover. When it runs, the coil is sort of just "sitting there" on top of the plug with nothing holding it down. He is supposedly going to correct this issue and then we'll go from there.

 

OK... this new format SUCKS! I will try an post this for a THIRD time.

I just got off the phone with the neighbor..... he found a vacuum tube by the trans dipstick that was unplugged. Plugging that in cured it all. He said he can lay a patch of rubber now, so that makes me smile because he said it now runs better than ever. I am glad having the timing off a tooth didn't harm anything.

 

Damn that is good news. Glad you got it figured out. Kudos

 

Thank you my friend. Now I am going to diagnose whether or not it really has a dead cylinder. I think I will unhook the crank sensor and have a listen to it cranking over. Easiest trick in the book.

BTW, did you see my earlier post about the high volume oil pump Melling just released for the 3V?

 

Hey White, I have come to the train of thought that the 09 I was looking at needs one of those new fancy pumps. Cold cranks quiet with no rattle but once warm there was a rattle under light acceleration. If the werent hung up at $12,000 I would probably welcome the project.

 

What's up White? Can't believe how absolutely shiiiity this site looks..reacts strangely as well. It's like some new guy, (a novice) changed crap around and doesn't know how to fix it. An all thumbs scenario lol.

Anyway, glad to hear the 3V was a success. New that was a handful from the get go, -but you still helped the guy and stuck with it. Hope he appreciates that, -that favor was huge lol. I wouldn't think to many of us would attempt to straighten out a mess like that. Hell, the engine was in pieces and components were assembled incorrectly to boot....that's like harassment lol. I most likley would of scratched the skull repeatedly if I sensed the help me out question coming on that one. Anyway, happy ending with it, well done...Congrats!