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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 05:52 PM
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I know some of ya have seen the video..
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...continued.html
Some have been helping and I really appreciate the help, I got her back together and the timing is fixed now the harmonic balancer doesn't jump around like it was before Unfortunately not mush has changed when throttling.. I recall a suggestion to check the compression, so today I picked up a compression tester gauge and here are the results.. WOT all 8 plugs were out and the battery was charged.
#1 piston was at 92 psi
#2 - 88
#3 - 63
#4 - 91
#5 - 90
#6 - 89
#7 - 92
#8 - 90
what do you guys think?
 
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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 06:58 PM
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Id be a little worried about #3, I know you want them to be within 10% of each other.
 
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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 07:22 PM
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X2, they're a little on the low side but more importantly they're pretty consistent across all cylinders (within 4psi in your case) with the exception of cylinder #3
 
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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 08:25 PM
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could be some carbon buildup?
 
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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 08:46 PM
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Would the #3 cylinder make my truck run like that?
 
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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 09:17 PM
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I would think it be a valve leaking, It could be carbon keeping the valve from closing fully. You think if it was a valve it would be popping out the intake or exhaust? I would run a leak down test. That will tell you if you have a valve leaking or a bad cylinder.
 
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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 09:31 PM
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What do you fellas think about seafoam?
 
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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 09:37 PM
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whats the inital timing at? sounds advanced a lil much...
shoot some oil in the cylinders and recheck compression.
what happened to that 428 crank you were goin on about? it may very well be time for that rebuild...
 
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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 09:46 PM
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Hell it wont hurt to try it. I have heard good things about it, But I personally never used it. Best of luck to ya
 
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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 10:04 PM
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If seafoam doesn't do the trick Ill be using that 428 crank real soon
 
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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 10:35 PM
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i dunno what you think the seafoam is gunna do for you...
poast leak down test and the wet compression results, that will do more than some seafoam...
and id still like to hear what youv got for initial timing, kinda sounds like my truck did when my advance was sticking open
 
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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 11:00 PM
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I always start with 12 initial, that video was before I changed the timing chain, in that video the timing was set at 16..or so I thought... when I changed the chain the piston was TDC and the dizzy was pointing at 3 maybe closer to 4 o clock? So i think the timing was jacked to begin with..
 
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Old Aug 18, 2012 | 11:29 PM
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Looks like I'm doing a rebuild....
 
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