strut bushing

With a worn cutlass bearing and proper strut/shaft/engine alignment, the prop shaft will be loose. The prop shaft will have excessive radial play. Sounds like you alignment is bad and or your strut is bent. Have you done any alignment checks? Didn't you check a couple months ago or was that someone else! If not, start by disconnecting the shaft coupling haves and see where the shaft wants to go then get back to us.

pbrainard, no I have not checked the alignment yet but I will this afternoon. Will that extra load make the engine have a miss? It is also very slow out of the hole! I set the points at .020 before we went out,and on the water I tried .019,.o22. Did not make any difference! I also played with the timing on the water and it really didnt help. The miss is actually backfiring through the carb. I changed the external coil resistor but not the coil or condensor for points.The p.o. said he just changed and the look new.There is no miss in the warm-up mode and it really sounds great!Thanks snobssed I will check out summitt racing!

I have a dwell meter that a friend loaned me but not sure the correct setting and how to use it.have not checked firing order(what is the order)and wires are good. I replaced rotor and cap last week. I did notice on the water yesterday that the cap has some play in it.It had 2 metal pins that hold it tight and 1 is missing.

351 w crusader     Do you know the firing order and cyl. #. I think that #1 should be the front left like most fords,but these may be different.

I believe that I figured it out.I found the engine tag (that was painted over and it had the firing order,points gap(.016),dwell 30 degrees). The p.o. put on new pcm wires and had mixed up #3 & #7.It should run better on 8 cylinders. I set the points and hooked up the dwell meter and it is at 29 degrees not 30. Should that be good enough?Also where the heck are the timing marks?? I believe that they are painted as well.

I still want to align the strut! I will wait until after this weekend and will probably have questions! What should I do about the "uprights" on the distributer that keep the cap from moving? One is broke off and the other is not far behind.I would like to wait for the electronic ignition upgrade for this winter if possible I have a 10 mo. old boy and a lot less extra cash than i used to have:)