ok so the car had been sitting for a long time and i just got it back on the road and it was running fine there was a little noise from the head i thought it needed a slight valve adjustment no big deal i didnt plan on racing the car or any thing like that and it smoked a tiny bit from time to time when i go to accelerate. so i replaced the plugs for a tune up a week ago noticed it was back firing a little in between shifts didnt think much of it. so tonight i get home check the oil and its a little low which i figured because it had been smoking a little so i put some lucas engine treatment in it to fill up and help it stop smoking and now it wont run..... i go to start in and it bogs to 5 or 600rpm and keeps cutting off checked the spark plugs and they are burnt up does anyone have any idea what the hell is wrong or and ideas on how i might be able to trouble shoot this anything will help thank you for your time.

 

i would do a comp. check. it might of been like a bent vavle. im not to sure.

 

thank you anything else??? bump

 

call me...

 

i think i fixed it the timing seemed to be a little off the distributer was pushed all the way up and i loosened in and put it dead center then i cleaned the dirty ass IACV valve and the seemed to fix the problem i did a compression test and it came back:

Cyl 1: 268
Cyl 2: 265
Cyl 3: 265
Cly 4: 260

so i doubt it has a bent valve or that the valve lash is out of wack or the rings have gone bad the compression seems to be pretty uniformed thanks for all you guy's help

 

thats good numbers