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Your fuel pump is spring loaded against the pushrod, it's up front and your hearing it in back so I wouldn't think this is much of a possibility.



When you put the new distributor in did you...

cgw3, I went back and re-read your initial post plus your updates. On the stethoscope, you will indeed hear components rotating in bearings, but they should be a dull roar, not any type of "tick"....

Just to be sure, you understand that this is to check that the lifters are rotating on the cam lobe, which in turn causes the pushrod to rotate while the engine is running, right? Wiping a cam lobe...

In post #18 you said you were going to look at the pushrods with the engine running, verifying that each one is spinning which is one step to eliminating a wiped cam lobe from the list of gremlins....

What Tech's saying is that a cracked flexplate is one of the first things to check with this symptom, but you don't have one. Torque for your flywheel bolts is 60 ftlbs, using LockTite thread locker...

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CGW3, as you can tell we're a bit bored with the cold weather and low winter post count syndrome, so you're the one who benefits ;):D I hope you'll hang in and close the loop with what's...

I've got a big old Craftsman screw driver that's almost 2' long, 1/2" blade and an ear against the end of the handle works good to find noises, too. I'm hoping that Jerry's idea of a wiped lobe on...

From an earlier post where you were trying to ID the engine, Tech pointed out that it was originally either a Powerglide or TH350 engine. Wondering about the pilot bearing/bushing in the crank, which...