Posted by Bob on September 05, 2019 at 21:52:49 from (64.255.159.199):
An older local fellow asked me to come over and verify the distributor position/timing and firing order of a NICE 656 hydro he's been working on for a couple of years.
Story he told was that it had been running well, then mice got in through the muffler and packed a couple of cylinders full of micey stuff, and that he'd taken the cylinder head off to clean it out and unstick a couple of valves.
After he put it back on, he said it wouldn't start and he thought maybe he'd messed up sparkplug wire positions in the distributor cap.
He'd just put a brand new battery in and was eager to get it running.
I removed the #1 sparkplug and held a finger over the hole to feel for compression to find #1 TDC.
My rough findings were that he apparently had the #1 wire in the proper position in the cap and the firing order correct.
So, let's do this right and find the timing marks on the front damper.
It was parked in tall grass, and I slid underneath to look at for timing marks on the damper and noted the oilpan was missing!!!!!
There were a few tall strands of grass that actually had grown up into the crankshaft area and got wrapped around the crankshaft when he tried to start it!
I said "Arvid, you've lost your oilpan"!
He said, "no it isn't lost, but I lost the bolts for it, I picked some up in town the other day, now I've lost them"!
"Buts that's OK, we can try to get it to start, it won't hurt for it to run for a short time".
It took me a bit to recover my composure, tell him we would resume trying to start it after the oilpan and oil were installed, and make my exit.
(He never did remember/explain why he'd removed the oilpan.)
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