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Originally Posted by alsriv2
In my humble opinion, if your timing chain jumped, you have some serious wear and tear inside that engine. Unless the timing chain is seriously stretched and loose or there is badly worn teeth on one of the timing gears, it would be impossible for a SBC engine to jump a tooth. (there is no idler gear in a Sbc engine)
You indicated that the intake manifold was loose and you had to tighten it down. That could very well be an sign of a tired engine that needs to be investigated for overall condition. At the very least the intake gasket should probably be replaced due to deterioration from being loose. The last thing you would want to have is water start mixing with engine oil due to a worn gasket.
You have a very nice looking truck and I wish you the very best with your new adventure.
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Thanks alsirv, that is the only explanation i can figure too, is either the chain was streached enough to jump a gear, or a tooth is missing, because it defeanitly was way out of time after the incident with the quilt getting caught in the fan. The timing seems to be right now, with moving the distributor about 3/4 inch counter clockwise, moving it while my wife cranked it was the only way to get it started to put the timing light on it. Weird huh! Yes, when I get time I'm gonna take the manifold off and replace the gasket, as well I should take the cover off the timing chain and inspect what's going on in there. I wanted a project, and I guess I got one, but first I need to figure out the vapor lock symptoms. I ordered a new gas tank sending unit with a new pickup screen, and I'm gonna replace the whole gas line and move it away from inside the frame close to the headers, to outside the frame away from the heat source, boy if that doesn't fix the what seems to be vapor lock, I will be at a loss for why it's starving for gas after driving it 20 miles or so, I'll keep all you fine people that have gave me usful advise posted on what I find.