Hey guys,
So I'm trying to get this pos 305 to run in my 65 pick-up and I'm frikin irritated right now . Long story short, it had a two barrel and original manifold, whole thing was a nasty greasepit; it got to where it would only run for a few minutes, then die. Then start right back up, run for a few minutes and die. Fuel pressure seemed ok, I noticed the carb was leaking fuel down the sides and probably needed a rebuild. I had a cheapie china stamped four barrel intake and an extra edelbrock carb, and an extra hei on hand, so I figured I would just swap it all over.
After finally getting it to seal (after having it apart and together again 3 times ); it's still doing the same thing. I guess it could be the same symptom, different cause if I installed something wrong; so any suggestions would be great. Before I tow it up to three rivers and push it off a cliff . Thanks guys.
Fuel filter is my first guess, crap in the tank may be blocking the filter
What he said...identical symptoms to my Nissan pickup with the rusted fuel tank.
Carbed small block chevys suck, im going to have to sell mine cause i cant get it running either. lol But seriously, what condition is the HEI in? The modules can fail but still work until they warm up a bit, then die.
Carbed small block chevys suck, im going to have to sell mine cause i cant get it running either. lol But seriously, what condition is the HEI in? The modules can fail but still work until they warm up a bit, then die.
+1 on the hei module crapping out when warm. Any auto parts store should be able to test it for you. Have them test it repeatedly and see if it starts failing.
you did make sure the HEI has 12volts, right?
just saying the 65 had points and a resistor built into the circut, and hei's dont like 6v
warpedredneck wrote:
just saying the 65 had points and a resistor built into the circut, and hei's dont like 6v
I didn't know that, I'll check tomorrow. Its an HEI unit out of another truck I used to have, it worked fine before in the other truck. It does get worse as it warms up though. So I'm glad you guys mentioned that. It's a new filter but it's a random clear one I grabbed off the shelf. It's not blocked but the pump certainly can't get it more then a 1/4 of the way full, so I'm not sure if thats relevant or not.
gigolojoe wrote:
warpedredneck wrote:
just saying the 65 had points and a resistor built into the circut, and hei's dont like 6v
I didn't know that, I'll check tomorrow. Its an HEI unit out of another truck I used to have, it worked fine before in the other truck. It does get worse as it warms up though. So I'm glad you guys mentioned that. It's a new filter but it's a random clear one I grabbed off the shelf. It's not blocked but the pump certainly can't get it more then a 1/4 of the way full, so I'm not sure if thats relevant or not.
I swapped an HEI into a 69 C10 I had, and I had to run a new wire from the firewall to the distributor to eliminate that resistor wire.
