Author Topic: 80 model 350 has good compression and spark but is not firing on #2  (Read 13339 times)

Offline cluke78

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Re: 80 model 350 has good compression and spark but is not firing on #2
« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2013, 12:57:37 pm »
yes the truck is running better but now i have a back fire through the exhaust. could this be a timing issue?

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Re: 80 model 350 has good compression and spark but is not firing on #2
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2013, 01:54:31 pm »
Time to adjust all you're valves. Its simple. I do the no lash then a quarter of a turn.
Take a look...
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89o5rLpbCgI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Re: 80 model 350 has good compression and spark but is not firing on #2
« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2013, 09:46:23 am »
ty i will try this

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Re: 80 model 350 has good compression and spark but is not firing on #2
« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2013, 02:00:09 pm »
You definitely need to adjust your valves....