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Originally Posted by Jake Wade
ASE certified? Don't know the firing order of SBC/BBC? This is a Chevy forum. Your jerking our chain, right?
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I see yet another flame starter. Instead of offering anything to the one who is having trouble with his engine situation in here, you and geezer#99 criticize someone who does.
Like geezer#99, in the time you took to respond to my posts, you could have gone to the web and placed that information in the forum. Not that it is needed. It just would have been a better time investment.
I don't have to know a firing order, as if it is some sort of tantric mantra. If I was a newbie with an old truck, would you be critical because I didn't "know the firing order of SBC/BBC? This is a Chevy forum."
My own truck has a I-6, so why is knowing a V8 firing order important for me to know? Thank you for your warm welcome to the forum.
I see you trolls haven't found fault with the diagnostic ideas I passed along. I also see neither of you have offered any of your own.
Just to make it simple for hillguy, once he figures out which terminal on his distributor is #1, the tower directly across from it on the opposite side of the cap will be the part of the crankshaft that carries the alternative fire cylinder. To do the simple balance test like I suggested he do doesn't even require starting with cylinder #1.
With the engine running, he could pull two wires on either side of the cap, plug them back in, and then go either clockwise or counterclockwise, pulling two wires at a time. NO FIRING ORDER KNOWLEDGE NEEDED.
This is seat of the pants diagnostics. You find a weak cylinder, if any, pull the plug and do a compression test.