01-21-2018, 08:42 PM
And she's back. Had a REAL bad backfire issue at first but noticed it coming out the carb and the exhaust. It also sounded like it was happening to just one cylinder on each side. I realized I must've crossed 2 sparkplug wires and sure as shit I did. 5 and 7 were put on right but I must've mislabeled them when I took em off because they were definitely on backwards. Gonna pull the valve covers and make sure everything is oiling correctly tomorrow. Then I'll let it get up to temperature to make sure nothing is leaking and then the real test is going to be laying into it a bit to see if oil is still seeping out of any where. I'm only worried about the rear main seal since the intake has new gasket (RTV) and the oil filter isn't likely to be a problem. Think that was the only 3 places I was losing oil. Not a big deal if it is still leaking there since I'll have to drop my K-member soon anyways to replace it.
Bullet dodged ... hopefully. Thank god I didn't build this with a ridiculous cam because this is the second issue that would have been WAY worse if my valves didn't clear my pistons.