Old Jeeps on the ole-truck list...heresy!
Actually I like the Willys wagons alot as well as our old GM trucks and would
like one
myself some day but have too many projects as it is for now. There's also a
Willys list
that you might want to join.
In the meantime:
1--any chance that the distributor is 180 degrees out of phase? ie, trying to
fire on
the exhaust stroke instead of the compression/power stroke transition. You
would have
to turn the distributor seriously to get it to run if it is and then it
wouldn't run
right.
2--any chance that the spark plug wires are backwards per which end is cylinder
1 and
which is 4? admittedly this is a stretch....
3--it has stamped marks on the timing gears so you can't get the valve timing
off? if
it is not item #1, it sounds like the valve timing isn't right.
4--1951....is this a 6vdc or a 12vdc system? I'm not up on the older Jeeps.
Is the
spark that you do get weak or good?
Mark Noakes
On Sun, 11 May 2003 11:32:44 EDT, HMills16@aol.com wrote:
>
> I am a home garage semi-mechanic who has inherited a problem. I recently
> acquired a 51 Willys Wagon that was in the stages of restoration. The engine
> was rebuilt and assembled but not running. I hooked up the carb and spark
> and am having a devil of a time with the timing. The firing order on the
> F-134 4 cylinder is 1/3/4/2. With the 5 degree BTDC mark indexed in the
> timing hole, the rotor should point at 4 o'clock and the number 1 plug.
> Trouble is, it won't run that way. If I move the plugs back (clockwise), so
> that the number one plug is at 7 o'clock and the 3 is at 4 o'clock and so on,
> it starts and runs but has no power and seems to stall or lean out when power
> is applied.
> The oil pump is installed correctly, the distributor appears correct. I am
> assuming that the timing marks on the timing gears are correct and more than
> that I am stumped! Even at the running stage, it will not time as the
> painted line on the flywheel is not showing up in the timing light at any
> position of the distributor. Could my oil pump gears be off?
> Anybody out there help a struggling home mechanic? This is a new one for me.
> Hugh Mills
> Kansas City
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