So a good friend of mine swapped my 258 to a 360 in my CJ7 that I removed from a J10. It had been rebuilt, ran well and had good compression across all cylinders. We believe it had a mild cam installed during that rebuild. But dont have any other details on the rebuild by the guy I purchased it from. It had 70K on it. It has a 2150 carb and a CRT HEI. Other than those items its stock.
Engine runs really nice, but at idle the engine rpms go up and down. We were wondering if that was because of the cam, but I started to throw a timing light on it and a vacuum gauge and noticed some odd things. Initially the timing was set at about 12 BTDC but that brought only 7 inches of vacuum. When I adjust the HEI to get highest vacuum (17) the engine settles down and RPMs and vacuum is steady, but I cant even see the timing mark. I have an adjustable timing light and I rolled the dial until I saw the timing mark at the 10 BTDC and the dial on the timing light was at 32. Does this mean that to get the highest vacuum my initial timing is 22 degrees? That seems not right. Bad for the engine? Is that what the cam did???
I was taught to time an engine by highest vacuum. Is this different in the AMC V8s?
Engine runs really nice, but at idle the engine rpms go up and down. We were wondering if that was because of the cam, but I started to throw a timing light on it and a vacuum gauge and noticed some odd things. Initially the timing was set at about 12 BTDC but that brought only 7 inches of vacuum. When I adjust the HEI to get highest vacuum (17) the engine settles down and RPMs and vacuum is steady, but I cant even see the timing mark. I have an adjustable timing light and I rolled the dial until I saw the timing mark at the 10 BTDC and the dial on the timing light was at 32. Does this mean that to get the highest vacuum my initial timing is 22 degrees? That seems not right. Bad for the engine? Is that what the cam did???
I was taught to time an engine by highest vacuum. Is this different in the AMC V8s?
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