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I use carb cleaner or brake cleaner to check for vacuum leaks. Spray round carb base, carb gaskets, and intake and listen for change in idle. Also can't hurt to spray vacuum hoses either

I took the carburetor off and cleaned it as best I could, it will run but only with the choke mostly closed, the next thing I'm going to check is the vacuum in the distributor. It acts like it has a vacuum leak but I couldn't find any, and that's the only thing I haven't checked yet.

You got that right! Reminds me of the time I took a Dodge pickup I had to a little garage in Concord for something. The man said "I can't work on that, it's got a carburetor and I don't work on anything that old". It was a '91 model I think, which to me is not "that old". And it didn't have a carburetor, it had the throttle body injection. What he was REALLY saying was " if I can't just plug a computer into it and let it tell me what the issue is I can't work on it".

Gotcha, that's quite a ways from me! Glad you were able to find what you're looking for. Hope you stick around so we can see the end results too!

Hi All , would anyone have one or two of the very small bulldog mascots for sale? Paul

Yep.. i think Australians call all of us Yankees..

Load number two Sitting in a paddock waiting It really is 17 feet wide and at least 60 feet long It isn't as big or even close to as big as the trailer attached to the big Mack Two normal bogie axle assemblies underneath, side by side Farmer reckons he has a loader than might sort of lift one end The rest is blocks of wood and jacks and winching I'll be living the dream, I really will As a apprentice there was a sign in the work shop that read something like this "We the unwilling have been doing the unbelievable with so little for so long we now attempt to do the impossible with nothing Kinda how I do everything, get into it and have a crack, I can only make a mess or succeed Paul

Well it's on like Donkey Kong now It's begun Mecho So we don't have flash rotator jiggers but rather we have what have at hand So we grab Mals Traxcavator, Case 1150 Lifts heaps First said gudday to Opera , aka "the black bitch" Mal bunged the tipper back on her in recent times Chucked the Traxcavator on and run it up to the unload site Then drop it off And head for home Phase one complete This trailer is bigger than Ben Hur I am gunna shift Or at least try and shift, it will be the second biggest size thing I have ever shifted Widest was 24 feet x 50 or 55 feet Will see what happens, might end up a complete cluster Paul

I went out to warm the truck up (1979 DM685sx T/A Dump Truck) and noticed the tach and speedometer are not working...again. They started working for a few days and now they are not working again. No movement on either one. Suggestions on where to start my testing? I have two manuals but neither one covers gauges. If anyone can also point out where I could get a manual for the electronics end of it I would appreciate it. Thanks.

It took me a while but I got the new clutch in. I put in the Eaton 9 spring ''Easy Pedal'' clutch. Yes, I went ahead and paid a local guy to put it in. He was backed up so it took a while but I now have a new clutch. Thanks for all the suggestions. Now I need to get some other things working. It is fully usable at this point but there a lot of little things that need attention. I will make new posts for those questions. Again, thanks everyone.

This from the guy born and raised in "Down East" Maine! Who now lives in NC. LOL! .....Hippy

Ive recently acquired a 1959 B Fire truck. Looking to do a service on the engine but I'm having a hard time finding part numbers for filters, oil specs and capacities. Engine is an ENF464B. Any help be it part #'s or links would be greatly appreciated. FYI, Ive already reached out to Watts and they had no luck.

what sensors? ABS ??

Ok I just got my truck back it turned out to be a combination of problems changed the sensor on both diffs plus broken wires.

yeah, a bunch of fancy rich people made up the name Australian Sheppard.. I think it's funny, not Australian at all.. Damn Yankee's.. They are great dog's, very affectionate, and protective.. and they will herd farm animals and children,,

It came in a annual subscription for the "Weekly Times" which is farmers weekly news paper in Victoria and the lower half of New South Wales I'll ask Mum the name of the book, it's all about dog stories Mum replied Joey I had to Google a what a Australian Shepherd is, they are a American dog from California ?? A funny old world https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Shepherd Kelpie are probably the most widely used sheep dog in Australia,they can scale vertical walls 15 feet high, I think record is nearer 17 feet They are long and lanky and tough, really tough like a blue cattle dog so are well suited to the Australian farm life Kelpies are on the cover of the book, Mum has a very old ex farm Kelpie that has fully retired inside Paul

Bullheaded: Watch the Mahan Collection video that Hippy just posted.. There are a couple of pictures of the INCO Mack in it.. It has a yellow tank, where I thought it was wood colored..

Hippy: Thank you much for posting this video.. I did not know how LARGE his collection was or that so much of it was outside... I understand the Mahan Foundation now has control of the Bickford Collection in Yarmouth Maine.. I hope someone makes a similar video of it..

What book/magazine is that from? Looks like a good read! My dogs too fat to be a truck ornament lol