Got the engine back together in my project car after replacing the head gaskets. Engine is a 93 Lt1 Aluminum heads, roller hydraulic rockers, and converted to a carb from TPI.
The engine was running great before but had a slight water leak out of the heads. I started it up for the first time today and it's running like @#$%. It's blowing a ton of choking smoke, the plugs are fouling bad (not sure if it's oil or gas but they smell like gas), and its running real rough. I checked and I am sure the distributor is in correctly. It's not backfiring back up through the carb. Just choking.
Could I have overtightened the valves and maybe one or more are staying open? I set them to where I couldn't turn the push rods any more and then went about 1/2 - 3/4 turn. I also just got done backing them off and restarted it and same thing.
Any other suggestions? It's getting a little discouraging, especially being I see now that there's also a little oil coming out of the back of the manifold. This is really called learning things the hard way.
The engine was running great before but had a slight water leak out of the heads. I started it up for the first time today and it's running like @#$%. It's blowing a ton of choking smoke, the plugs are fouling bad (not sure if it's oil or gas but they smell like gas), and its running real rough. I checked and I am sure the distributor is in correctly. It's not backfiring back up through the carb. Just choking.
Could I have overtightened the valves and maybe one or more are staying open? I set them to where I couldn't turn the push rods any more and then went about 1/2 - 3/4 turn. I also just got done backing them off and restarted it and same thing.
Any other suggestions? It's getting a little discouraging, especially being I see now that there's also a little oil coming out of the back of the manifold. This is really called learning things the hard way.