[JeepHammer]

Looks like you have some grinding and drilling to do!...
Better you than me!
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Gasoline wasn't available in any quantity until about 1913 when the 'Thermal Cracking' technique for extracting gasoline and other lighter fuels from crude oil was invented by William Meriam Burton....
Before then, it was a rare waste product that virtually no one used.

The first 'Successful' gasoline engine design was produced on 06-September-1892, the first gasoline-powered tractor, manufactured by John Froelich of Iowa, was shipped to Langford, South Dakota, where it was employed in threshing for approximately 2 months.

It had a vertical single-cylinder gasoline engine mounted on wooden beams and drove a J. I. Case threshing machine.
Froelich formed the Waterloo Gasoline Tractor Engine Company, which was later acquired by the John Deere Plow Company.

It was retired because of a shortage of gasoline to run in on.
John Deere company has been trying to buy it for over 70 years with no luck.
That serial number 001 still exists, and resides in a museum to the plains in Nebraska.

Although successful as a 'Placement Engine', and was portable, this implement wasn't 'Self Propelled', and therefor couldn't be classified as a 'Vehicle'.

The patent is on file.
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The VERY FIRST PATENT FOR A GASOLINE ENGINE AUTOMOBILE was issued on 11-June, 1895, to Charles Duryea of Springfield, Massachusetts.

That would be 1895, not 1695, or whatever.
The engine wasn't commercially viable however, and the company never took off.

The first commercially viable gasoline engine automobile was built by Henry Ford and sold in the Model 'T'.
The model 'T' was built to burn grain alcohol, not gasoline, since gasoline wasn't readily available at the time, the first was October 1, 1908.
That Model 'T' engine design ran for 18 years, 1908-1927 with virtually no changes...
One of the only changes was switching from alcohol as fuel to gasoline as fuel, and the big oil companies had to bribe Henry Ford to get him to switch over to gasoline, since it was considered an 'Untested and Unreliable' fuel at the time.
You can reference the history of the Model T to verify, also the patent records show the 'Gasoline Conversion Carburetor' patented by Ford motor company 1919.

The only gasoline engine design to have a longer run was the Volkswagon Beetle.

The Ford Model 'N' used an NON-SUCCESSFUL engine design, that also burned grain alcohol, so it failed.

Out of the 299 automobile manufacturers in the US in 1914, only 7 used gasoline as the primary source of fuel, and all of those were upscale, hand built vehicles that were well below any numbers that could be called 'Production'...
Crafted, Yes. Production, No.

These are verifiable facts, easily looked up through patent records, not just the usual odd claims made by internet posters.

Cutting and pasting random internet background noise isn't the same as knowing the subject.

This has gone from silly to malicious... and I don't care to participate in a conversation that can't keep a professional detachment.
And when a fool and a wise man argue, on lookers can't tell the difference.

[ego99]

OK, I just got a new harmonic balancer and after comparing the two, my old one had definitely spun about 60 degrees. I will post pics so you guys can see what the old one looked like as soon as I shrink them down a little. I am no longer going to use the HEI after reading some material about the one I had (CRT performance) in particular. I am running to the store now to get the stuff for a TFI install.

New question:

The PO had a rebuilt engine put in right before I bought it, as a byproduct of shortcuts the carb choke, manifold heater, and relay are not connected or no longer exist. Do I need to reconnect all these to properly tune the engine? Or are they not necessary? Thanks

[ego99]

Jeephammer, I just sent you a PM.