I didn't watch the mov files yet but i read your post. Listen to the guy's on here. They have been down this road many times and know what they are doing. The HH did fix my starting issues, having enough fuel in a clean tank fixed all the other issues
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lol. If your having as much smoke as you said I am think you may have a piston or piston ring issue. But thats just a gut reaction. I dont know but someone on here will know.
If you have to do your HH it isn't the end of the world. Just don't be in any hurry and take your time. go slow, think slowly, and dont be afriad to remove extra parts to make things easier. Get comfortable and muddle thru it. I did one day for the disassembly (about 4 hrs.) another day to screw with getting the timing lined up to remove and reinstall the HH and reassembled everything on a third day.
yesterday i got my tank back on and today my gaskets arrived. in went the fuel pump, and i cleaned my sender and gas cap in my ultrasonic cleaner ( worked awesome) while i was putting 11 gallons back in it. The sender said 1/4 tank so that seems about right.
I removed my old blinker module and reinstalled the new one. It tested fine and the blinkers worked so i was excited.
Then i went onto bending some EMT tubing to use for the mirrors and some flat black paint.
when everything was done, she fired right up. just the push of the button. turned the headlights on and checked the blinkers just so i could admire the work and now it looks like i need to find the short thats tripping a breaker. The headlights work just fine, turn on a blinker and the headlights go out...
sooooooooooooooo close
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