smittiegee19
New member
Hey y'all,
so my wife finally found a Scout she liked and decided to purchase it. It is a 1975 IH Scout II with a 304, Holley 2 bl carb and a Holley after market distributor. When we purchased it, it was leaking oil from valve covers. We drove it home doing highway speeds and had no problems with it. I changed the valve gaskets, spark plugs (gapped at .030), cleaned up the points and rotor button. I also saw the po rigged the fuel pump to work so I changed that as well. My brother in law changed the speedometer and a few interior parts (hood release, emergency brake) and he adjusted the clutch to let out at the top, rather than at the floor as when we bought it. I noticed when checking the wires on the distributor that when I removed it, the conductor was inside the distributor rather than the end of the spark plug wire. Now it will start better, but will not get any power. Like won't go up a hill or anything. I am a novice mechanic in the truest meaning of the word and I am only a week into owning what my wife thought was her dream offroader. I am going to get a timing light to see if it May be off, but I think that May be futile. I hope I gave y'all enough information to at least get me and my brother in law going in the right direction to get this beast running.
so my wife finally found a Scout she liked and decided to purchase it. It is a 1975 IH Scout II with a 304, Holley 2 bl carb and a Holley after market distributor. When we purchased it, it was leaking oil from valve covers. We drove it home doing highway speeds and had no problems with it. I changed the valve gaskets, spark plugs (gapped at .030), cleaned up the points and rotor button. I also saw the po rigged the fuel pump to work so I changed that as well. My brother in law changed the speedometer and a few interior parts (hood release, emergency brake) and he adjusted the clutch to let out at the top, rather than at the floor as when we bought it. I noticed when checking the wires on the distributor that when I removed it, the conductor was inside the distributor rather than the end of the spark plug wire. Now it will start better, but will not get any power. Like won't go up a hill or anything. I am a novice mechanic in the truest meaning of the word and I am only a week into owning what my wife thought was her dream offroader. I am going to get a timing light to see if it May be off, but I think that May be futile. I hope I gave y'all enough information to at least get me and my brother in law going in the right direction to get this beast running.
