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Presumably this is not the crank/cam timing issue you're now talking about ? If there is substantial oil flow to the rockers that would suggest there should be oil pressure. Which I'm guessing is what this post is about ? I hope I have overcome the first..... There is no flow to the rockers.... I h...

Ok update update update. Had some time to look again at this, I have had quite a battle to get to grips with it, but nearly there now. BUT...... I have tried and tried to prime the oil pump ( packed with Vaseline ) No joy...... Tried extra oil in the pan........no joy....... Taken the pump off clean...

Ok, had a good look over things today, had the front cover off, timing is spot on. Pressure valve was a little sticky, so cleaned it all out and removed the rocker shafts from both banks and primed the pump manually, had good oil flow on each bank, so re assembled it all and retried the pump, seemed...

The distributor was fitted originally, the car had a slight miss, and I could never get it to idle evenly. The replacement of the mentioned items were the last of the replacement things to find the problem. I think the issue was a loose bolt on the cylinder head ( very loose ) and it showed it on th...

Ok, just to confirm. it seems that a lot of reply,s are = " are you sure you are on compression stroke" ? well if you read the previous posts you will find the answer! if you can't be arsed, then here it is again. I used the finger over the spark plug hole, rotated the crank by hand, the ...

No such thing as a numpty question, only a numpty answer. yes clockwise, the crank nut will undo otherwise, i have not torqued it up yet. this engine has been run up before ( see previous ) it has had partial fire up with dizzy rotated to its limit. i cannot turn dizzy, give throttle and hold a timi...

Ok, just to confirm. it seems that a lot of reply,s are = " are you sure you are on compression stroke" ? well if you read the previous posts you will find the answer! if you can't be arsed, then here it is again. I used the finger over the spark plug hole, rotated the crank by hand, the f...

Thanks for all the advice chaps. Yes I did fit the cam and pointers correctly with the piston at TDC. I have set number 1 firing point by the blowing the finger off the plug hole, and watched the inlet valve close, however I do have to rotate the crank a fair bit to reach the marker ( the scale is ...

Thanks for all the advice chaps. Yes I did fit the cam and pointers correctly with the piston at TDC. I have set number 1 firing point by the blowing the finger off the plug hole, and watched the inlet valve close, however I do have to rotate the crank a fair bit to reach the marker ( the scale is j...

I have gone back to basics time and time again, both at TDC and 6deg before, and it still will not start and idle enough to continue. To add insult to injury, I now have no oil pressure, or not full pressure when priming manually. The engine ran very well until I began this work bar a slight miss on...

There is some movement available on the optic / baseplate, but not enough to align both points. No Vac unit on this dizzy. I have tried all positions on the set up with no luck, each one has the same result. I am beginning to suspect the camshaft is the wrong type, even though the part number is cor...

I have tried the crank at TDC and 6deg before, but what is throwing me is this optic on the shutter wheel, if I then line up the rotor arm with it pointing directly at Cyl 1, the gap on the shutter is no where near the optic, likewise if I line up the gap on the shutter wheel the rotor arm is nowher...

Thanks for the reply. I have set the dizzy at the firing stroke ( had the young un put her finger over the plug hole on CYL 1 ) and set the shutter wheel ( Malory unilite ) correctly. However I did notice that the actual rotor arm does not point directly at a lead plug point on the cap, it sits betw...

Chaps. I need some help!, I have fitted a new camshaft and followers, and while I did take care to align the timing marks, and set the piston to TDC, I did not check to see if TDC was at the firing stroke! ( duh! ) so at the moment I cannot get it started, and my niggle is that I had set TDC at the ...