Welcome to Country Boy Gas Garage! My name is Jason and i am just an average guy that has always had a love and passion for classic vehicles. I am married to my amazing wife Peggy and we have three wonderful children. We live in a 30ft Pacific Yurt that we built up in the forest outside our small town of Fall Creek, Oregon. My love for old cars and trucks started as a child and i was only 16 when i bought my first muscle car. 1991 at 16 years old i bought my 1970 Chevy Nova and built it up. 30 years later and I'm still driving that car. I also have a traditional style Rat Rod pickup i built with my great friend Kelly at Spider Hole Customs, a 1959 Chevy El Camino field find project and the Abandoned 1948 Ford F5 Church Bus that we a currently rescuing from the forest. this is the main focus on the channel now. 1948 Ford Bus Revive and Drive!
I agree with all the other 90 percent of comments Line up the timing chain dot to dot,,, and also it shud run at the 90 psi as u had reading on it,,, Is it possible the pushrod length is incorrect and if so this could affect your comprehension reading by not letting them seat correctly,,?? I'm anxious to see it run I have faith it's a good engine,,, Don't give up on it yet I enjoy watching it vids bro,,, "Richard"
Or could be flat lobes on cam , or all that water valves could need to be lapped , easy there’s videos drill lapping compound , and a little piece of rubber hose
WISHING YOU LUCK, HOPE THAT AT THE END YOU CAN REBUILD IT COMPLETELY. JUST TO BE SAFE! IT MAKES SENCE FOR NICER QUALITY JOB! EXPENSIVE HELL YEAH, BUT SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO THINK WISELY. WELL TILL YOUR NEXT SHOW. ADIOS....
Nothing pops out as strange; you should be good. Maybe clean it all up, lap the valves, hone the cylinders and even re-ring it; it should run well. You won’t need to ditch it after all; which is a win.
That's the thing with an engine someone else put together. You don't know what they either did or didn't do. So you're safest bet is to take it apart and make sure everything is right.vor you are basically gambling with someone else's numbers. It's a good way to end up on the side of the road. Waiting on a tow truck.🤷
Pour water in the combustion chamber and see if it leaks out. If so, the valves aren't seating. If the water stays in, the valves are seated fine. If you didn't bend a valve by running it out of time, you need to set the Cam and crank gears dot to dot. By that I mean the crank dot at 12 and the Cam dot at 6. Then set the distributor.
Also you did have the timing set wrong. It's 6 and 12 o'clock on the timing gears. Also those heads definitely need gone through. Don't give up on that engine. A valve job and cam shaft won't be that bad.
Hey man glad I found your channel. I saw your full length bus video and came to check out what else you were into. I like how your grassroots, low buck, working with what you've got. Stay humble and keep it real!
one cheap tool I use is a piston stop. it is really nice when you have a bunch of unknown parts like that. some sbc motors have the timing mark on the cover at 12:00 like that and some are at 1:00 (dots need to be 12:00 and 6:00.)
