ok i finally get the truck running yesterday and today i take it for its first test drive around the block and about a hundred feet down the road this thing starts smoking like cheech and chongs van and it sounds like there a 37 little woodpeckers trying to get out from under the valve cover. this truck has pissed me off for the last time does anyone need a new project.
and as a foot note i want to start a fund to buy plane tickets so that we can all go to japan and open hand slap every employee at the nikki carb factory
i hope you shut it off immediately. doesn't sound like a noise i'd like to have happening for any longer than necessary.
did it smoke when it was just idling?
was it makeing the tapping noise when you cranked it up? what all did you do to it to get it running? it sounds like you just need to adjust the lifters which is a very simple process. don't give up bro, you have got a sweet project on your hands, you just have to get the kinks worked out.
the noise is just the lifters need adjusted but the smoke is what really got to me. when its first started it doesn't smoke but after it get warmed up it looks like a pink floyd concert in my front yard and the longer it runs the worse it gets. the motor has been setting in the back of my friends shop covered up for over a year so maybe the rings siezed up or something.
could be a ring with all the smoke. my truck had a broken ring,but it smoked on start up,and smoked like mad until it was fully warm. either way,sounds like there's oil getting through somewhere it shouldn't be.
pull the plugs out and see if any have oil on them! Then put some seafoam in that bitch and see if it will unstick the ring if it is a ring hanging up...