Yes, its true . . .after a long hard battle(not really) to save her life . . .she passed on to smaller and worse things, one day to become someone's coke can. Well, the engine anyway! Long story short, us south florida guys had our meet tonight and we all came to the conclusion that the "No maintenance whatsoever Cancer" that was given to her by the previous owner had taken its toll on Virginia's insides. Sure enough, she died right on the operating table. We had diagnosed the problem and realized she had seen her last days. We started talking about a new engine swap and believe it or not it was the last time we heard her run. Call it coincidence, or call it fate but we all knew it was sheer jealousy. . .ok enough crap, so the engine died while we were on our meet and luckily enough i now have a friend who happens to have a 302 sitting in his garage. i am gonna take that and learn how to swap it with a few of my other new friends and all should be well. so not all is lost. im still keepin the truck cause if i spend a small amount of money now and swap the engine i will have a well running truck as opposed to buy another truck and running into more problems. my friend says it is in great condition, never smoked a day in its life(unlike mine lol) and its a direct swap of course. so soon i will be parting out my current 302 for whatever i can find thats usable and doing the swap. just thought ya'll would like to hear about the end of this 302 restore, and the begining of the 302 install lol. more to come in a separate thread.

 

Monty here she's not dead she's jut on vacation lol.

 

Virginia will think that you are the almighty for ressurecting her.

 

Felix,

I kept thinking last night about the things we did to the truck during the meet and if there was anything that could have had anything to do with it not starting.

The only thing I remembered after the meet was the ECM. Remember it was hanging loose in front of the accelerator and we shoved it back up into the dash.

Check the connector make sure it's good and tight. That whole area down there is an electrical train wreck.

Maybe next weekend we'll get together one day and I'll pass by and clean up all that wiring for you.

I also want to take my compression tester and see what is going on inside those cylinders. that "psst", "psst" sound coming from the driver's side of the block is not good news. I think, at the very least, you have a blown head gasket.