Re: [Chrysler300] 440 300 Problem

[Sean Duggan <saduggan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On a freshly rebuilt engine there is another problem you can have  
with the rod. On my engine the block sat for months in between me  
working on it and when I was putting the final touches on the engine  
I noticed the rod stuck out. Total pain, I had to take the whole font  
of the freshly painted engine apart again to pull the rod. I did  
everything I could to clean the hole that held the rod and used  
engine assembly lube over and over again. Even with all this, when I  
put the engine in the car and started it I had a bad knock. Figured  
out that it was the fuel pump pushrod. After a couple of days the rod  
broke in and the knock stopped. Alot of things can happen with that  
rod, glad I didn't have to fix it in the car.

Sean Duggan

On Sep 11, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:

> Now I'm jumping ion on this one. I have a very similar problem with  
> my 383
> in my '65 300 Sport. Some of you may recall my woes with this  
> engine since
> it's rebuild.....it still won't run well at all, I've tested and  
> replaced
> pretty much everything and it still haunts me. In one of my recent  
> attemps
> to resolve the problem I discovered that once again I have a fuel  
> delivery
> problem.
>
> All of a sudden, no fuel getting to the carb. Added fuel to the tank,
> nothing. Pulled the line off at the carb and fired the car on prime  
> a few
> times, nothing. Ran a line direct from pum inlet into a bottle,  
> nothing!
>
> Fuel pump is new but tried others from my collection of spares and  
> no luck.
> Now I'm going to take the advice of club members I received ages  
> ago and
> swap out the push rod but every parts guy looks at me like I'm  
> crazy saying
> those would never wear out enough to not pump the plunger. I find  
> it hard to
> believe myself, especially on a car that ran great before I rebuilt  
> the
> engine and has only 75k original miles on it. My other B / RB  
> engines have
> had twice the milage and the abuse and I never encountered the problem
> before.
>
> Does anyone have any proof they wear out? Has anyone compared  
> measurements
> to a new one? Convince me this isn't just a futile effort even  
> though it's
> really only about a 20 minute job and likely inexpensive.
>
> Ryan Hill
>
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