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will they fit under the stock valve cover and who makes them

okay guys here it is . rockerarm failure... i had bought a set along time ago to replace the ones on there and went back to the worn orginals(worried about all those reports of rocker failure) and the manely pushrods went through them. i pulled the passenger side cover off to check the lash a...

bill- i mention earlier that one of the timing marks had a screw head in it. the outer cover had been bolted to the harm balancer(i am sure this is great for balance) i did not discover what the bolt was for until yesterday when i looked at it off the engine

bill- the 409 ignition system has become my new favorite curse word. i have completely replaced the entire ignition in the last 2 months. when i got the timing cover off i made sure the alignment marks on the timing chain were correct the rotor was correct and the external pointer for the crank...

hey guys the timing is a dead issue. if i go from 6 degees(and the engine won't run below this ) to a total of advance to 54 degrees the timing is ok no matter were timing mark is, then timing isnt it, (i've even fliped the dist. the head rebuilder promised me that the heads were set for...

this is the real deal years ago when i bought it. i made sure that the motor was a real dual quad, (although the tranny is a 65 m-22)god knows the ways that these car have gone up in value you better watch out. i still plan on pulling the cam though and checking it out. it is a high mileage car...

ronnie somewhere in the rpm range the vacuum adv stops and the mechanical fully takes over. when i was trying ignition timing on a distributor machine i thought it was around 2500 . mechanical was 11 at 1600 and 24 at 4600 so your intial plus the mechanical was my result so at one time i...

thanks again for all the suggestions. i am in this far so i mind as well pull the bumpstick on the engine and look at it . the heads were completely re done i remember the head guy was well familiar with the 409 heads, in fact he tried to sell me some he had still there. the part about the...

made it down to the timing gear set, it is a gm timing gear set the serial number is 3704274. does this sound like the right serial number for the 425hp model? the timing marks were right on so the chain did not jump. will try to pull the cam in the next couple of days if i get a chance

thanks for all the help, i too was hoping it was an ignition problem it would have been alot easier job to fix. the harmonic balancer may be a truck unit. it had two timing marks on it, one off which had a flush mounted screw in it ( i am sure we had the correct one because when we put the...

ronnie diconnect the vacuum adv. started at 10,20,30, at 30 the car accelerated better than at 10 or 20 the dist is set up for stock adv in both mech and vac kind of makes me wonder if the cam has been set up wrong. i have had that rad in and out of the car so many times i ready to install a...

i think i can totally rule out ignition problems. went all the way back to points and closed the gap on the plugs down to 25 but it still has no power in it. i know the dist is in right spot also because in many many removals i managed to stab it 180 out and the engine sure did not like it. i...

yea i don't know what shape the cam is in. we set the timing up when the heads were off and made sure that we had the right marks(there were two about 60degrees apart) we also replace the rocker arms at the time because they looked pretty worn. the vacuum reading is about 15" with alittle bit...

about two weeks ago i yanked the distributor on the 409 it had so much slop in it i ordered a new one from show cars and installed it. i've replace the wires, plugs ,cap, rotor distibutor, and coil over time trying to figure out what was wrong. the car idles as steady as a rock an is easy to...

bypassed the resistance wire were it comes out of the fire wall so it runs the full 12v. the car never ran right because the exhaust valves were burnt and the carbs leaked so badly the carb would smoke from all the leaking gas when i shut it down