Ruben - I got TDC down - but thanks
My mom still wants to know why she cant park her Lincoln Towncar in the garage - a 2 car garage that has so much garbage in it my dad bought a shed to put everything in it... and yet still barely has enough space for a petite 78 Rabbit
..back in NW MA tonight... heading back to NE PA on Friday night... got 3.5 days to:
-get all the gauges wired up nicely
-pop in the new hatch glass
-figure out the idle issue
After doing all this over the past few days..
-500 miles round trip from NW MA to SE PA and back.
-picking up a refinished wheel at Perfect Metal
-destroying new cams by stripping the cam gear main bolt in attempt to find the flywheel's TDC (which apparently it doesnt have marked on it)
-driving 250 miles to pick up OE cams
-finding TDC with the piston trick on cyl #1
-replacing cams (properly & torqued to spec)
-noticing my distributor doesnt have a TDC mark either (WTF)
-turning over engine to hear it backfiring like a bitch ass mod on the vortex
-timing it according to TDC & playing around with idle screws.
-rechecking carbs synch
-calling Tom & Steve & Ugly Bastid & anyone else who would listen to me
-calling Tom a few thousand times more.
I am at a loss to think of what to do next to get this fucking thing to idle properly.