Ok long time no update. Head all back together with fresh valve seals and polished valves. Bolted everything back down and realized that there aren't just left and right rockers but left and right for both intake and exhaust, so valve train back apart and pulled another rocker from the scrap engine. Compression test again, nope, still have 2 cylinders with zero. Figured out there was absolutely no valve lash set, so once that was dialed in, it fired right up, if only briefly... then I let some smoke out of the harness... and found out the horns work, like really really really well.
So now I'm doing a full rewire from scratch, because it's all rotted. Nothing worth saving. Also trying to sort out a fuel delivery issue with the new replacement mechanical fuel pump... it just doesn't seem to be doing the trick. The motor will cough and fire if I prefill the bowl but it doesn't fill back up.
Last edited by Capt Oblivious; 09/22/2021 11:18 PM.
