Ok,
Fix one thing find another. Gonna give the whole story, so bear with it please.
Got my baby moose and injectors in, ran great 1-2 days. Had an issue timing it. My battery was going bad on the Ferret meter and the reading was off. Seems it was at 12+ deg btdc at 1st. Only ran it for about 20-30 miles (needed to go to work a few days). Got the meter sorted out, timed it to 8.5-9 deg btdc. Runs good, just heard what sounds like a miss, especially when cold. Found that the exhaust manifold was leaking (had an old jeep 4 cyl that had a leaking exh man that sounded like a miss before). Got new manifold gaskets on. It is quieter, but still sounds like a miss.
The truck runs pretty good, but you figure until I put the baby moose in the system had about 191,000 miles on it, don't have a good baseline feel. The sound gets better (never goes completely away) as the engine warms up. More smoke than normal when cold, almost, if not completely goes away when warm (except when I am heavy footed). Cold grayish, heavy foot, black.
Thinking injector (all new), compression (need recommendations on a good gauge), or something worse (hope not). I am looking for ideas what is most probable, easiest to check out, etc.
BTW: I have heard that the copper washers on the injectors are single use, I had to loosen and re-tighten one of the injectors when installing them, possible compression leak? If so, I will redo all of them. Been working on wife's and daughters vehicles, so I am a little behind in the Ford.
Thanks ahead of time.
Fix one thing find another. Gonna give the whole story, so bear with it please.
Got my baby moose and injectors in, ran great 1-2 days. Had an issue timing it. My battery was going bad on the Ferret meter and the reading was off. Seems it was at 12+ deg btdc at 1st. Only ran it for about 20-30 miles (needed to go to work a few days). Got the meter sorted out, timed it to 8.5-9 deg btdc. Runs good, just heard what sounds like a miss, especially when cold. Found that the exhaust manifold was leaking (had an old jeep 4 cyl that had a leaking exh man that sounded like a miss before). Got new manifold gaskets on. It is quieter, but still sounds like a miss.
The truck runs pretty good, but you figure until I put the baby moose in the system had about 191,000 miles on it, don't have a good baseline feel. The sound gets better (never goes completely away) as the engine warms up. More smoke than normal when cold, almost, if not completely goes away when warm (except when I am heavy footed). Cold grayish, heavy foot, black.
Thinking injector (all new), compression (need recommendations on a good gauge), or something worse (hope not). I am looking for ideas what is most probable, easiest to check out, etc.
BTW: I have heard that the copper washers on the injectors are single use, I had to loosen and re-tighten one of the injectors when installing them, possible compression leak? If so, I will redo all of them. Been working on wife's and daughters vehicles, so I am a little behind in the Ford.
Thanks ahead of time.