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Re: new distributor [Re: 8urvette] #2766482
04/20/20 08:54 PM
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Ok, no vac advance. 50* is obviously way too much. If your using a dial back timing light, I would try a non dial back light if you haven’t yet. I’m assuming your mechanical advance is working with correct springs.

Re: new distributor [Re: 8urvette] #2766582
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The flex fan will need a shroud, but even without it should run cooler on the highway but will have problem in town,

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OMG!!! :whiney whiney whiney:

About ready to lose my s***..... AGGGHHHHH.

Flex fan in, 1/2" from radiator, high flow milodon pump, high flow water pump housing, high flow 160* thermostat.

Still runs hot!!! idle, road, highway.... sits at 210* I DO NOT YET HAVE A shroud, but id think at speed the airflow would make up for it?

WHAT THE HECK!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!?

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Re: new distributor [Re: 8urvette] #2767176
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What has changed in your combo from this point in time??? It was exchanging heat and dropping the coolant temps.


"At idle in my carport it comes to 170* the t stat opens and it drops to 150*ish. when it warms that water up the stat opens again and hot water from the rad coms in and a few seconds later at about 210* the fan comes on and brings everything back down to 170-180* idling fan goes off and then on and so on. it works in the carport.

I took it for a test drive, it hung out around 200*-210* driving. seemed fine there, when i came to a stop it would slowly come down to 190-180* start driving again and it would go back to 200-210*. Maybe it isn't the best radiator? maybe the small ports on the housing don't flow enough water? maybe its a combination of it all."

Re: new distributor [Re: jb500] #2767185
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Originally Posted by jb500
What has changed in your combo from this point in time??? It was exchanging heat and dropping the coolant temps.


"At idle in my carport it comes to 170* the t stat opens and it drops to 150*ish. when it warms that water up the stat opens again and hot water from the rad coms in and a few seconds later at about 210* the fan comes on and brings everything back down to 170-180* idling fan goes off and then on and so on. it works in the carport.


This still happens. except now it has a mechanical fan. no electric fan, so it starts heats up, opens the t stat- comes down then slowly rises to 210ish.

Originally Posted by jb500

I took it for a test drive, it hung out around 200*-210* driving. seemed fine there, when i came to a stop it would slowly come down to 190-180* start driving again and it would go back to 200-210*. Maybe it isn't the best radiator? maybe the small ports on the housing don't flow enough water? maybe its a combination of it all."


now it heats up, and seems to stay around 210*, like its getting heat soaked. i don't know

Re: new distributor [Re: 8urvette] #2767189
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is your lower hose a non-collapsible rated type, has a support spring, or none of the above?

Re: new distributor [Re: 8urvette] #2767192
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Had the issure yrs ago. Get a test kit to check for exhaust in cooling system. You never know.

Re: new distributor [Re: 8urvette] #2767227
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It's pretty funny really. These overheating threads come up at least once a year (probably the same on other auto-related forums) and almost always follow this same course. Lots of suggestions, cooling system parts swapping, testing, all with little or no success. Sometimes people install massively overkill cooling systems and are okay afterward but how many people are out there doing just fine with the stock factory cooling system? Lots. I think the problem is that people assume the problem is the cooling system when the true culprit is elsewhere. There a LOT of lurkers watching but not participating because they've done it before, perhaps several times.
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Originally Posted by 8urvette
OMG!!! :whiney whiney whiney:

About ready to lose my s***..... AGGGHHHHH.

Flex fan in, 1/2" from radiator, high flow milodon pump, high flow water pump housing, high flow 160* thermostat.

Still runs hot!!! idle, road, highway.... sits at 210* I DO NOT YET HAVE A shroud, but id think at speed the airflow would make up for it?

WHAT THE HECK!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!?

flame

Re: new distributor [Re: rickraw] #2767269
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Originally Posted by rickraw
Had the issure yrs ago. Get a test kit to check for exhaust in cooling system. You never know.


starter relay just died, have to wait till tomorrow. i will test head gaskets then.

this is just a lil' 383, what does everyone else do for cooling? what rad? what pump? what housing? what if any shroud.

Re: new distributor [Re: 8urvette] #2767323
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You ever get the stumble out of the carb?

Maybe try locking the timing out at 36 degrees? Without a start delay will be hard to start hot but a easy test to see if anything is different.

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Originally Posted by Dart451
You ever get the stumble out of the carb?

Maybe try locking the timing out at 36 degrees? Without a start delay will be hard to start hot but a easy test to see if anything is different.


NO, I don't think it is a timing thing.

It does it under 1500 rpms. Maybe even closer to 1k. In drive if i give it any gas off idle it will pop through the carb and sometimes die.

If i barely move the throttle and get the rpms going up then it drives normal.

Re: new distributor [Re: 8urvette] #2767371
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Its lean.. the spark is chasing the fuel.. have you done anything to the carb.. you might try
opening the mixture screws a 1/8 of a turn
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Re: new distributor [Re: 8urvette] #2767393
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sounds to be a fuel/vacuum issue. If you set the screws to max vacuum that should be enough fuel. Have you tried to turn the screws all the way in and stall the engine, both screws one at a time. That would eliminate anything plugged either side. Some of the early Holley Vacuum carbs had mix screws that metered air instead of fuel. So to make it rich the screw would have the be screwed in and screwed out for lean. The shroud I used is a Jegs brand for mopar to fit 69 B body 26" radiator. This shroud fit my 26" A body perfectly.

Re: new distributor [Re: mopar dave] #2767398
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Work on tuning the engine, my 69 Fury 383 cooling issues disappeared once I got the timing and carb figured out.
It runs a aluminum radiator (factory one was rotted out) stock fan with stock shroud.

Re: new distributor [Re: 8urvette] #2767401
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the Jegs shroud I used is made of black plastic and the opening is 20". Part Number: 312-P2785434. Mine looks similar to this one just to give you an idea.

Re: new distributor [Re: mopar dave] #2767407
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Found this on Mancini site Item #: MOPP2998326 and it has a 20" opening.

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Re: new distributor [Re: 8urvette] #2767454
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I've had motors stumble due to being to rich as well as to lean, to lean normally will pop through the carb, backfire, to rich is doggy before it cleans up and goes. scope
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Re: new distributor [Re: Cab_Burge] #2767589
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I went to my buddys shop, he has also been giving me ideas. He lent me his blue point thermo gun.

My in car gauge says 250* , The laser dot from the gun on temp probe says 180*

I bring it back and he lends me his "expensive" thermo gun to verify. It reads within a few degrees of the blue point. I check over the whole motor, all exhaust several points on each head, the block, the oil pan the radiator etc...

This means I have had 3 bad gauges, WHO THE HELL HAS THIS KIND OF LUCK????????


Also my exhaust at idle is between 650* and 850* the outer cylinders are 650* the 4 inner ones are 850*. I hate this thing right now! flame flame flame

Re: new distributor [Re: 8urvette] #2767599
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The only thing I can say is when your ignition timing is too retarded you get extra heat in the headers.

Re: new distributor [Re: mopar dave] #2767770
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Your persistence on trying to figure it out is awesome.
Hopefully this is your biggest problem in life, if so you are still winning up

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