So my 17 year old boy bought himself a 53 Willys Flatfender with a 225 offdfire that he has now had for about a year. He has done all the work on it himself, and I only step in when he gets stuck. But I can not figure out this issue for him for the life of me.
He decided that he needed new valve springs since it seemed his valves were floating a little and the springs were worn out.
Putting in the springs, one of the exhaust valves dropped down, so he ended up taking the heads off on both sides to put all the springs on.
He put it all back together, fired it right up, and within less than a minute, the header on the odd side of the engine, (driver's side) started glowing red. On all three pipes. The passenger side did not even get warm.
He figured maybe it was running really lean on one side from a vacuum leak on the intake, so he took off the intake manifold and re-did everything to seal it up as well as he could. The header STILL glowed red. It gets hot QUICKLY, so I do not think its a coolant issue... more like he is getting after burn. ??? I dunno. It runs/sounds good.
We doubled checked the firing order and plugs like 10 times.
He checked the compression and all three cylinders on that side are around 140 ish
He didnt have to pull the distributer, so the timing was not changed at all.
We did advance the timing some, but it still heated up quick. (although IMO not as quickly as before)
Pulled off the muffler so see if that was clogged somehow, (does not seem to be) but the Jeep started backfiring when we tried to crank it over...maybe it didn't have enough back pressure???
Pulled the valve cover and all the valves seem to be moving up and down...
Anyone have any ideas? We are leaving Friday for a wheeling trip, so he needs to get this thing going ASAP.
He decided that he needed new valve springs since it seemed his valves were floating a little and the springs were worn out.
Putting in the springs, one of the exhaust valves dropped down, so he ended up taking the heads off on both sides to put all the springs on.
He put it all back together, fired it right up, and within less than a minute, the header on the odd side of the engine, (driver's side) started glowing red. On all three pipes. The passenger side did not even get warm.
He figured maybe it was running really lean on one side from a vacuum leak on the intake, so he took off the intake manifold and re-did everything to seal it up as well as he could. The header STILL glowed red. It gets hot QUICKLY, so I do not think its a coolant issue... more like he is getting after burn. ??? I dunno. It runs/sounds good.
We doubled checked the firing order and plugs like 10 times.
He checked the compression and all three cylinders on that side are around 140 ish
He didnt have to pull the distributer, so the timing was not changed at all.
We did advance the timing some, but it still heated up quick. (although IMO not as quickly as before)
Pulled off the muffler so see if that was clogged somehow, (does not seem to be) but the Jeep started backfiring when we tried to crank it over...maybe it didn't have enough back pressure???
Pulled the valve cover and all the valves seem to be moving up and down...
Anyone have any ideas? We are leaving Friday for a wheeling trip, so he needs to get this thing going ASAP.
