Re: 304 swap

["Jeff Tarquinio" <tark_terra@domain.elided>]

John and all IHers who have complete engines on their floors,

  The engine was complete including the starter, bell housing and transmission, a pos and neg batt cable.  It was sitting on the floor on a tire with a floor jack supporting under the altenator bracket.  There was no fan.;)  I took a battery I had kicking around and even jumped with my Toyota pickup.  I clamped the pos from the starter to the pos post of the batt. with the clamp of the cables, I also ran a wire from the (+) of the coil to this clamp.  obviously the ground cable to the neg batt post similar to the pos post.  I took a piece of bare wire, (a screw driver would work) to short the solenoid to trigger the starter.  Once I had it turing over I started pour gas down the carb, a little either here and there and it started to sputter.
  Then I pulled the fuel sediment bowl off the fuel pump, cleaned out the crud.  I ran a piece of spare fuel line from a 5 gallon gas can to the fuel pump pickup.  I made sure fuel was pumping to the carb.  Then a couple more turns of the engine, a little more gas down the acrb and it ran on its power.
  I revved it up a couple times, let it idle for a minute or so, revved it up again, and shut her down.  I was satisfied.  I figured if it rolled off my jack I would just pull the cables and it would shut right down.  It didn't fall, but it did shut right down when I pulled the neg cable (closest one to me).

That was it.
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Layda,
Tark
'77 Terra 345/T19/D20
   Survivor of '98 Scout Nationals
'80 Scout II 345/TF727/single speed tc
   Clean machine



On Mon, 04 Jan 1999 17:47:55   John A. Landry wrote:
>When he stopped taking his medication, strange voices in "Jeff Tarquinio"
><tark_terra@domain.elided>'s head said:
>
>>I got it home and started tinkering yestarday.  I got it running on the floor of the garage, it sounded pretty good.  A little loud without exhast and I couldn't run it long with no water.  But, at least I know it runs.
>
>Jeff,
>
>Please elaborate more on how you did this (run it without mounting in a
>vehicle).  Do you have some sort of stand?  What about fuel tank, etc.
>Sounds like fun!
>
>John L.
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