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Dear Allpar,
If someone could help i would be eternily greateful. I have a 1976 Dodge D100 Adventurer with a 360 LA 5.9L with a 2 barrel Holley 2245 carb. This is a California model as far as emissions goes. I cannot get it to start. Engine will not even fire. It is getting fuel the carb is shooting gas down the intake. It ran up until I was at the autozone one night bleeding the brakes when i was finnishing up i noticed the vacume hose from the power booster was running to what looked like a tree with open pipes not connected to anything. I put plastic caps on them and started the truck up and went on my way. after I did this I noticed a huge performance difference for the better. As i was driving back to base it died on the off ramp so I threw it in neutral and fired it back up. I managed to make it right inside the front gate at the duty hut before it died again just after I got waved to pass by the marine on duty. Sence then It has been 3 weeks of me wrenching on this thing, resealing and gasketing the intake and valve covers. I bought new fuel lines(old ones where dirty on the inside), filter(dirty), and pump(only 20$ replacement part, might as well). Cleaned the carb and bought a rebuilders kit and literaly baby stepped putting it back together the right way. Replaced the ignition coil, distributor, rotor, cap. Turned crank to 0 casting number for TDC Then put the new distributor in the same way I took it out. (facing the engine) Vacume advance on the left, wiring on the right, rotor arm looks to be pointing to the number seven cylinder. capped it and wires running to appropriate firing order where number one wire is running from the hole directly above the rotor arm. I even replaced the starter and checked every wire for maby a cut or burn. nothing. I am literaly at my wits end and need help badly I dont know what the deal is its not fuel i checked for the proper octane fuel and the battery isnt dead. I have no clue why It wont fire. It is getting air, fuel, and power I have no clue why it wont crank. Last night it sounded like only one cylander would fire in my best atempt to replicate the sound (chew, chew, chew, budda, budda, chew chew, budda) over and over until the engine wont even shake anymore and all I hear are the chew noises. earlier when it did almost start it sounded like hell and shook like crazy, almost like it was starving for air or fuel, shortly after i died and never fired up again, on ocation I would get a little white thin smoke coming from what looked like the headers but not any more. PLEASE HELP!!!!!
If someone could help i would be eternily greateful. I have a 1976 Dodge D100 Adventurer with a 360 LA 5.9L with a 2 barrel Holley 2245 carb. This is a California model as far as emissions goes. I cannot get it to start. Engine will not even fire. It is getting fuel the carb is shooting gas down the intake. It ran up until I was at the autozone one night bleeding the brakes when i was finnishing up i noticed the vacume hose from the power booster was running to what looked like a tree with open pipes not connected to anything. I put plastic caps on them and started the truck up and went on my way. after I did this I noticed a huge performance difference for the better. As i was driving back to base it died on the off ramp so I threw it in neutral and fired it back up. I managed to make it right inside the front gate at the duty hut before it died again just after I got waved to pass by the marine on duty. Sence then It has been 3 weeks of me wrenching on this thing, resealing and gasketing the intake and valve covers. I bought new fuel lines(old ones where dirty on the inside), filter(dirty), and pump(only 20$ replacement part, might as well). Cleaned the carb and bought a rebuilders kit and literaly baby stepped putting it back together the right way. Replaced the ignition coil, distributor, rotor, cap. Turned crank to 0 casting number for TDC Then put the new distributor in the same way I took it out. (facing the engine) Vacume advance on the left, wiring on the right, rotor arm looks to be pointing to the number seven cylinder. capped it and wires running to appropriate firing order where number one wire is running from the hole directly above the rotor arm. I even replaced the starter and checked every wire for maby a cut or burn. nothing. I am literaly at my wits end and need help badly I dont know what the deal is its not fuel i checked for the proper octane fuel and the battery isnt dead. I have no clue why It wont fire. It is getting air, fuel, and power I have no clue why it wont crank. Last night it sounded like only one cylander would fire in my best atempt to replicate the sound (chew, chew, chew, budda, budda, chew chew, budda) over and over until the engine wont even shake anymore and all I hear are the chew noises. earlier when it did almost start it sounded like hell and shook like crazy, almost like it was starving for air or fuel, shortly after i died and never fired up again, on ocation I would get a little white thin smoke coming from what looked like the headers but not any more. PLEASE HELP!!!!!