I changed out all 16 valve springs to 6.1 exhaust springs. I cranked it by hand and everything seemed to be fine. Finally got everything buttoned up and it doesn't want to start.

If I keep the throttle down it will sputter and kinda run for a few seconds. Sounds bad though. I'm pretty sure the coil wires are where they're supposed to be. I'm going to do a compression test tomorrow to see if anything shows. No issues with dropping valves or anything like that.

Any ideas of something I could have missed?

 

I would say plug wire firing order problem most likely

 

No plug wires for him to mess up, its a hemi swap. Did you make sure your pushrods were seated right when you buttoned up the rockers?

 

That funny ! My hemi has plug wires

 

I taped the coil and extra plug wire together and labeled them as I went to make sure they were right. I confirmed they are right by looking at the numbers on the wires.

I was pretty paranoid about the pushrods being in the rockers correctly. The one intake shaft was a little difficult to get on, maybe I'll look there first. Thanks guys.

We're getting a blizzard today so we'll see what I can get done. It would be so nice if my truck would fit in the garage

 

When you find the problem can you post it please? I'm planning to do a cam and spring swap in spring and it would be nice to know the possible problems before i do

 

Good luck

 

Did a compression test and it's pretty screwy.

8-0
6-115
4-0
2-120

7-didn't bother
5-65
3-65
1-120

Not sure what the hell happened. I'm going to take it apart tomorrow and see what's going on.

 

#4 & 8 definitely have some stuck open valves. I think that's the worst spread on a compression test I've ever seen. You better get in there.

 

Check and double check the timing.