tarafied1
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So my son bought this Torino wagon. It didn't really "run". It would sort of run but not idle or stay running. We had some time to dig into it last weekend. I felt like it had a vacuum leak but we couldn't find one. Checked timing and it was advanced about ~40 degrees BTC. Timing marks end at 30 but it was way passed that. Wouldn't run at all if we set it to 8 BTC as specified or anywhere close for that matter. I thought maybe it jumped time. First we checked with a piston stop to make sure the balancer was correct and checked to make sure the distributor wasn't 180 off. Everything checked out okay. We pulled front cover off and timing chain was ok. Very puzzled. So I suggested my son pull intake and we would clean it up and seal all potential vacuum leak sources. He took it off and took it to his school to sand blast it. I got home from Cleveland Ohio today and he brought the intake and other parts home after blasting them. Turns out they put a four barrel on the stock two barrel intake with an upside down adapter which I could see when we bought it. But after taking it apart I could see there was a port to a spacer (probably EGR) between the original 2 barrel and intake that was exposed to the intake side dumping the crossover exhaust into the motor! Result, it was dumping raw exhaust into the intake under the carb. It's a wonder it would run at all!
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