'69 302 struggling?
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Cargo Master
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'69 302 struggling?
Have a '69 Bronco with a 302 in it. Changed out the headers and it ran really well, then it started to get worse. It's defiantly coming from the passenger side.
Tightened the bolts for the headers, made sure no spark plug wires where crossing, checked the spark plugs too. Made a slight difference but still acting up.
The truck does have a little bit of carbon build up, but it's odd that it started to run rough. Little bit of back firing when it's cold, chugs a bit when cold. New problems.
I'm guessing either a cylinder or even two aren't firing right or the headers aren't properly flush somehow and it's causing back pressure problems. Plan on pulling spark plug wires once it's running to see if it's one of the cylinders. Just seems odd to have it go out after like 50 miles of swapping the headers.
If it helps, changing the headers raised the oil pressure back to normal for some reason.
Any suggestions? Anything I might have missed in checking all of this?
Thanks.
Tightened the bolts for the headers, made sure no spark plug wires where crossing, checked the spark plugs too. Made a slight difference but still acting up.
The truck does have a little bit of carbon build up, but it's odd that it started to run rough. Little bit of back firing when it's cold, chugs a bit when cold. New problems.
I'm guessing either a cylinder or even two aren't firing right or the headers aren't properly flush somehow and it's causing back pressure problems. Plan on pulling spark plug wires once it's running to see if it's one of the cylinders. Just seems odd to have it go out after like 50 miles of swapping the headers.
If it helps, changing the headers raised the oil pressure back to normal for some reason.
Any suggestions? Anything I might have missed in checking all of this?
Thanks.
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Found the gasket had failed on the passenger side header, cracked and broke off, not sure why (must have tightened it down in the wrong order when we put them on or something). Didn't catch it till we started it up when it was very dark and you could see fire from the cylinders.
Thanks for the help.
Found the gasket had failed on the passenger side header, cracked and broke off, not sure why (must have tightened it down in the wrong order when we put them on or something). Didn't catch it till we started it up when it was very dark and you could see fire from the cylinders.
Thanks for the help.
Hotshot
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 11,141
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From: south louisiana
Solved:
Found the gasket had failed on the passenger side header, cracked and broke off, not sure why (must have tightened it down in the wrong order when we put them on or something). Didn't catch it till we started it up when it was very dark and you could see fire from the cylinders.
Thanks for the help.
Found the gasket had failed on the passenger side header, cracked and broke off, not sure why (must have tightened it down in the wrong order when we put them on or something). Didn't catch it till we started it up when it was very dark and you could see fire from the cylinders.
Thanks for the help.
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