Recent content by LukeCrawford

Vacuum gauge was bouncing off 0 and cylinders have real low compression 75-80

Tryed this.still not doing much

Thanks Mike this is my first flathead and I'm glad you can help me out with this! Going to head to town and grab a few things this morning

ah thanks

Pull what?

Thanks for the idea! I have not tryed this yet il let you know

Has new coil, got good spark and I don't think it's the cam gear as it was starting well before and I was driving it down the street, just couldn't handle high rpms so I got a new distributer

Thanks for the reply. Yes I have just put the old distributer back on and still nothing. And I got the Mallory because iv heard that dual point was required to make it handle higher rpms. It was running very poorly before

Hey everyone, so before I begin I'd like to say that the 8ba I rebuilt was running before this problem. It has a merc crank, and Navarro heads, it was running very poorly at high rpm so I decided to bring it home for a valve set and new malory distributer over winter. Now the problem is that the...