[DeTomaso] Weirdness with my Cleveland ...

[wkooiman at earthlink.net]

1. Dist pin - (I know, you're checking it)
2. Trash in the needle/seat in your carburetor
3. Jumped timing.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Erik Anderson <eanderson at geotracinternational.com>
>Sent: Jul 8, 2008 6:47 PM
>To: msm at portata.com, JDeRyke at aol.com, detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Weirdness with my Cleveland ...
>
>Correct. It looks like pin is broken in half. I'm going to pull the distributor right out now ... 
>
>Stay tuned!
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: msm at portata.com <msm at portata.com>
>To: JDeRyke at aol.com <JDeRyke at aol.com>; Erik Anderson; detomaso at realbig.com <detomaso at realbig.com>
>Sent: Tue Jul 08 17:50:40 2008
>Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] Weirdness with my Cleveland ...
>
>We are all assuming that by "won't start" you means that the starter cranks the engine over but that it just does not catch, right?
> 
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>From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com on behalf of JDeRyke at aol.com
>Sent: Tue 7/8/2008 3:51 PM
>To: eanderson at geotracinternational.com; detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Weirdness with my Cleveland ...
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>
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>In a message dated 7/8/08 3:41:23 PM, eanderson at geotracinternational.com
>writes:
>
>> I got about half a block and felt the power drop bigtime.  Just as she
>> stalled she let out a huge backfire!  My cat has NEVER backfired before - so I'm
>> not sure if that has something to do with the problem or not. That said, the
>> car won't start since this happened .
>>
>Pull the distributor. Look through the hole in the distributor drive gear.
>There should be a roll pin in there. Yours is probably a spring pin made of many
>coils of thin sheet steel. It is likely broken or at least cracked. A real
>roll pin will cost around 15 cents and will have a single sheet of much thicker
>steel with a slot down the side. For ultimate protection, slip a second
>smaller roll pin inside the first. Retime the engine and you're ready to go.
>If the drive pin seems unbroken when you drive it out with a punch to verify,
>the only other possibility is a slipped cam chain, and for this, the rear
>upholstery panel, the steel access door, the water pump and harmonic balancer
>must come off. Badly worn cam chains can jump off the sprocket teeth, mistiming
>the cam; replace the chain and both sprockets for best results. All this can be
>done with the engine in place, incidently. Good luck- J Deryke
>
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