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I did suspect the distributor but since I made better connections on the orange box and chassis ground I haven't had any problems. I hope it is fixed now. Let me know what you find out please. By the way, that was a very well written post.

Can you send me a link please. I have the 11 inch front breaks and all the conversion kits I see replace the spindles. Thanks

About 7 years. I rebuilt the engine but that was the main problem. I changed the steering to manual, it's a lot harder than I thought it would be. I just have to put the power unit back on, if it will fit. I flushed the radiator yesterday and that seems to have fixed that. I think the gas gauge...

Lucky you with disc brakes. Mine are drum and they pull left this time and right the next. I want to upgrade to disc but changing spindles is above my pay grade.

Let hope. Well time to move on to the next problem, front brakes, radiator, gas gauge, steering, guess I can pick one out of a hat.

Update. I made the connections on the ballast resistor much better and I also made the orange box and the engine grounds better. I drove it for about 40 minutes with no problems. Maybe it was just a bad connection or grounds. I will try it again tomorrow.

Yes. I have been doing that. The problem is I have to drive it till it dies then check it on the side of the road. Everything checks good while it's idling at home. Intermittent problems are the worst.

I will but it I can see fuel in the sight windows and the squirters work when it dies.

Good deal. I have a wiring diagram that I got from Classic Ind. It's really helped me figure out a few things. I got my under dash reverse light working too. I do a little work on old tube radios and had a light socket that fit perfectly in the reverse housing. A very simple circuit but such a...

OK, this is making me crazy. The engine runs great and then it's like you just turned off the key. If you let it sit for about 10 minutes it fires back up and runs fine till it decides to die again. It has the early electronic ignition with the orange box. I have checked the wiring and changed...

OK. This is the best I can do with the fire up video. It's on YouTube. I got up to the point where it backfired and the wife was done filming and headed to the house. The fire freaked her out. She did come back but the rest it just running the 20 minutes to break in the cam. Tell me what you...

I'll try again but I'm not a cyber expert. I kept getting a too large attachment to send error message.

Glad I had my buddy helping me with mine. The timing was close but still had some fire blasting out of the carb. The squirters on the primary side were clogged so it wouldn't run up RPM very fast. I left the radiator cap lose so not long after it started to warm up we had a geyser in the garage...

Great Russ. It is so cool to hear the engine run after such a long time isn't it? I'm still tuning and tweaking on mine. Take care of that eye.

I would go with the TTIs.

OK this is what I found. If you took all the rockers off the bar and reversed them the oil would squirt slightly away from the valves instead of toward them. I think it would still work but not the correct way to install them. I also pulled each lifter and found #6 intake wasn't holding solid...

OK. The engine looked and ran great but I could not stand that lifter tick so I pulled them out one at a time and found that the intake on #6 wasn't pumped up solid. When I set it on the bench and pushed down on it with a pushrod it gave a little. The others were rock solid. Got one lifter and a...

What is the original gear ratio for a 383 4 speed 69 Roadrunner vs the same year automatic?

OK. Mine never goes away. I plan to search further to identify which one is bad then replace it. Maybe get new pushrods too. Will let you know. Thanks guys.

I did prime the oil pump but not the whole motor. No I read that it's better not to fill the lifters with oil, to let the engine do it. Yes I should have used all new parts. Maybe I will get a new set of lifters and push rods. What do you think? Should be OK right?