Well its been a while since my last update. After getting the engine installed and all hooked up again.
I couldn't get it to crank over, after a few hours of checking everything I finally went home and reviewed my service manual and realised the wire to the starter relay on the firewall was off.
Now its cranking !, But I don't have spark, looking over manual again and using a test light on the connectors that I thought were to the old "Lean Burn" were actually the two connectors that needed conecting to power the solid state ignition.
Now I have spark (Yea!) but It is still not firing, thinking I had fuel soaked the plugs with all the cranking I had been doing, I let it sit over night.
The next day I tried again, spark but still no fire.
Finally got the 4bbl kick down linkage I needed and installed it
All the while I was wondering why I wasn't getting any oil pressure or any oil at all to my new mechanical oil PSI gauge.
Researching over night I learn all about Chrysler's legendary oil pump priming difficulties. Crap! now what?
Well, I tried cranking the crap out of it, No pressure,
Pulled the plugs out of it and attached a booster battery charger and spun the piss out of it, No dice!
Ordered the specific oil pump priming rod and waiting several days for it to be delivered and then tried to pull the intermediate shaft to access the oil pump, It wouldn't budge well that was a waste of time and money.
Even tried to pressure the crank case by shooting air into the engine thru the oil dipstick tube but the rings are so worn it didn't even come close to building pressure.
Tried to prime the oil pump through the oil pressure gauge sender hole, After 2 quarts of oil down the hole spinning the engine with the starter still no pressure! ARG!!!!!!&^%#%^&*^%$!!!!
While considering my oil pump woes I changrd the idler arm in the steering and the sway bar end links.
Time to drop the pan, DAMN!
while down there, replaced the oil pump with a new high volume one which by the way was identical to the existing pump but cleaner, packed the new unit with pertoleum jelly and got the pan back on just in time to clean up for the day.
Well the Hobby shop is closed sunday and monday and I have school all this week so I will probably have to wait till friday to see the fruits of my labor if there are any.
Oh Yea, I forgot mention the intermediate shaft for the oil pump, that would not come out, I had to use a hammer and punch to drive it up and out due to the varnish build up on the shaft. Maybe I can use that oil pump tool I paid for this time.