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Next?

Been so long I honestly can't recall who's was who's.

Vaughn? Clint?

So after that distributor gear failure we got the bits out of the oil pan, put the other gear back, took off the valve covers and rechecked valve lash, everything is set up right. Then we did three more tests and data logging with three different 02's, when we got to the third one we hadn't...

Hmmm

Bouncing between projects, ran the big block again. Still some inconsistent sniper readings. Did a few runs with some data logging. Do we need to pull some valve covers? Am I hearing some valvetrain noises?

Oh no doubt, ifn I'm gonna go to all the trouble of building up some axles I might as well. First I need to get the bare metal stuff taken care of. Weird to think how little I see YJs on the road these days with everyone and their fancy new stuff.

Took her out for a little burn around the block, seems to be running okay, forgot how sketchy she is, rides like a tank. Some other things are new door panels, lift gates, see if I can clean up the hardtop and all the dash plastics, check anything rubber, swing out tire carrier and...

Now that things are wrapping up on the hot rod I've been at home getting back to a whole bunch of unfinished YJ projects. I've had this thing for 25 years and for now I plan on retaining the 2.5 AMC and just making it streetable again. I've already replaced the transmission, rebuild the...

Went fishing, can see all 4 teeth that busted off in the oil pan, someone mounted this engine so low that taking the pan off is a lot of work so we're gonna just get these bits out, put the other gear on and run it.

I feel ya. All my receipts get tossed in my file cabinet, get asked all the time how much I think I've got into my project and I don't care to know, I'm never selling it, to me it's "priceless"

It was a comp cams. Maybe that was our mistake, composite bad for this setup.

We'll check into it more during the week, we definitely wasn't working it at all, sitting at idle, sniper was throwing other issues and then she just shut down, sniper obviously showed a total loss of RPMs. Still hopeful everything else is fine and those bits dropped into the pan.

MSD pro billet with a composite gear. I'm hoping those bits just dropped in the pan and that's all the damage we have. Not being an engine nerd like some of you. I'm trying to understand what happened. One answer I don't have is I'm not entirely sure which oil pump I'm running...

Still working on this turd, at least it looks nice. 😄. Have another sniper on there, still having issues. Then this happened. I know what we'll be working on next.