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Maybe Hippy will bring us some to Macungie...hint-hint...😁

It sounds ok Bob, all I have to do now is put the air cleaner back on. I didn't earlier because I wanted to finish cutting the grass before it rained, but I didn't make it. It did smoke a little bit after it idled a few minutes, but not too bad I guess. And I did put enough Lucas in it to treat 100 gallons of gas, and it has about 10 or 12 in the tank. I'm going to drive it up to Sheetz when I get a chance and put more gas in it. When I get it out here on the ol' super-slab, rt. 460, I can tell more about it.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ydsEgcn2FX13QMPD9 I don't know if this link works or not, I took a 15 second video of the truck running with the choke open for the first time since it's been here. Carburetor guy just left, he set the air mixture screws and said it should be all right, so I hope so. Just gotta put the air cleaner back on now. If it doesn't work, here's a girl I saw at the Winfall Coffee Bar & Cafe last weekend. She asked me if she could buy me a cup of coffee but I told her no, I didn't have time to fool with her or a cup of coffee.

I've heard of it too, but don't remember ever seeing it. I might have up north and didn't know what it was. I remember 41 Chevy talking about it, he said it was good.

How about the Iowa 80 Museum? They have a great museum with lots of antique trucks, but not as many as the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum in Colonial Heights, Va. It's not as far south as it used to be, due to global warming. That's a great place to visit, they have a restaurant, gift shop, truck parking, everything you need. Let me know when you're gonna be there, I'll buy everybody lunch.

Carburetor guy dropped the carburetor off today. He's the guy around here that everybody says knows carburetors and how to work on them. Young fella too, looks like he's about 60. He told me to call him when I put it on and he'd come over and make any needed adjustments. He said there was indeed still debris in it, and I'm definitely NOT a carburetor guy, but he also said the rubber thing on the accelerator pump was off of whatever it's supposed to be on, and laying down in the bottom. I know rubber hates ethanol gas so even though it's more expensiver that's all I'm going to put in it. If it finally runs that is, if it doesn't it's either going away from here or something that will run has to go in it. I was going to try to put the carburetor on in the morning but there's a 90% chance of rain tomorrow, so I don't know. I have to do everything in the driveway, I have no shop, and the only tools I have is a big hammer, a long handle punch, a screwdriver, pair of channel lock pliers, and an adjustable wrench. So here's another girl in another car, from the interweb.

Well thank you, thank you very much!

So here's the latest latest update. I got the carburetor kit and spacer in the mail yesterday. I was so sure that the too long studs was the problem I didn't wait to have the kit put in the carburetor, I slapped the spacer and carburetor on the truck and fired it up. This morning I took the carburetor off so I can have the kit put in it. It doesn't run any better than it did at first. Needless to say, I'm getting very frustrated with it. So here's a picture of a girl in a car that I took when I was sitting in traffic on I-40 in Knoxville in 2020. Pretty sure she knew I was looking too.

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I will, I'm just waiting on the spacer and gaskets now. I ordered a kit too, but I probably don't need it. But, on the other hand, taking it apart and giving it a good cleaning couldn't hurt, that gas that was in it did look pretty bad.

I took it off and looked at those studs, as seen in the first picture, and it just dawned on me that they looked awful long. And I had never noticed before. On the front side it has that plate that goes across both studs for the linkage from the governor, and it was probably enough for it to tighten up anyway. But when I noticed the studs Monday morning, I measured the carb. flange, measured the studs, took one out, measured again, set the carb. back on, looked at it, scratched my head, and thought "why in the world did this not occur to me at first?". And the previous owner too for that matter, it's a wonder they didn't catch it. He told me- after I had already bought the truck of course, not at first- that it would only run with the choke partially closed, and that tells you right there that SOMETHING isn't right.

Sleepy Joe is supposed to be in Charlotte today. I'm sure he'll explain how it was all Donald Trump's fault.

Well, I have a little bit of an update. I used to have a set of drill bits and the smallest one in the set was so tiny that when I slammed my finger in the car door that time and my finger swelled up and the nail turned black I just twisted it in my hand and drilled a hole in the nail to release the pressure. Also, I took the carburetor off the International that doesn't run this morning. I was going to put a stamp on it and send it off to the carburetor fixing place. And I noticed that the manifold studs looked awful long. Strange that I'd never noticed it before. So I pulled a stud and found that even with the nuts tight they wouldn't even reach the carburetor flange. Stuck the carb back on and said "ah-hah!" So I believe this to be the cause of all the problems. There's no way the carburetor could have ever been tight. But I still ordered a kit for it, just because. And while I could have put a couple of washers on the studs, they just happened to have a half inch spacer where I ordered the kit, so I told them to send it on. I was going to go to NAPA and just get some shorter studs but I figured with my luck they'd wring off in the manifold.