Roothawg
09-13-2003, 11:49 PM
I win.
After battling with the motorhome from Hell...I beat the f'in thing. For those of you who have endured the countless rants and offered advice I applaud you. Some of you were actually very close on my troubleshooting nightmare.
I had a 2 part problem.
1.NEVER buy an HEI distributor from Summit un der any circumstance. This will be hard to believe but it is the God's honest truth. I had put timing tape on the balancer since it is in a m/h you can't see the tab, so they install one from the factory that mounts on the bottom of the oil pan.They just forget to rescribe the balancer, thus the need for tape. I throw my timing light on it at TDC and vacuum disconnected, I get 0 degrees on the initial time, plug in the vacuum advance, it goes to 12 at idle...good so far, right? I crack the throttle and it goes to......80 degrees. I swear. I called my Dad down out of the inside of the m/h to double check. This can't be....this is impossible. It was possible...pulled the old distributor off the shelf and overhauled it, it was wore out though.
Throw it in, same timing light, same tape, same reference marks....runs like a champ 12 -14 degrees initial and 36 total. What a piece of crap.
Problem 2
My father-in-law owned this m/h since new and babied it. Always took it to a Chevy garage to have the work done by a "qualified dealer". Well, when the surging originally started 3-4 years ago it was progressive, once in a while and finally got really bad after I bought it.
Long story longer, he told em to replace the in-tank elec pump, which they did. I dropped the tank today and they had changed it but the retard that did it CUT the wiring harness on the pump instead of just unplugging it.There were 2 butt splices submerged in the fuel tank and one of them, the ground, was not making good contact. Therefore the intermittant problem of pump working/ not working. So not only was the mechanical pump having to pull the fuel 34 ft, it was also having to pull it through the old elec pump in the tank. I pulled the pump and hooked it up to a power source and a ground and it purred right away. Funny how that works.
I AM VICTORIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After battling with the motorhome from Hell...I beat the f'in thing. For those of you who have endured the countless rants and offered advice I applaud you. Some of you were actually very close on my troubleshooting nightmare.
I had a 2 part problem.
1.NEVER buy an HEI distributor from Summit un der any circumstance. This will be hard to believe but it is the God's honest truth. I had put timing tape on the balancer since it is in a m/h you can't see the tab, so they install one from the factory that mounts on the bottom of the oil pan.They just forget to rescribe the balancer, thus the need for tape. I throw my timing light on it at TDC and vacuum disconnected, I get 0 degrees on the initial time, plug in the vacuum advance, it goes to 12 at idle...good so far, right? I crack the throttle and it goes to......80 degrees. I swear. I called my Dad down out of the inside of the m/h to double check. This can't be....this is impossible. It was possible...pulled the old distributor off the shelf and overhauled it, it was wore out though.
Throw it in, same timing light, same tape, same reference marks....runs like a champ 12 -14 degrees initial and 36 total. What a piece of crap.
Problem 2
My father-in-law owned this m/h since new and babied it. Always took it to a Chevy garage to have the work done by a "qualified dealer". Well, when the surging originally started 3-4 years ago it was progressive, once in a while and finally got really bad after I bought it.
Long story longer, he told em to replace the in-tank elec pump, which they did. I dropped the tank today and they had changed it but the retard that did it CUT the wiring harness on the pump instead of just unplugging it.There were 2 butt splices submerged in the fuel tank and one of them, the ground, was not making good contact. Therefore the intermittant problem of pump working/ not working. So not only was the mechanical pump having to pull the fuel 34 ft, it was also having to pull it through the old elec pump in the tank. I pulled the pump and hooked it up to a power source and a ground and it purred right away. Funny how that works.
I AM VICTORIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!