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16 hours ago, Mark T said:

Congratulations OD.  Now you can have some fun with the truck . Seemed like you were getting a little disgusted (who wouldn't)  That truck probably hasn't run like that in years, sounds pretty good in the videos.  Non ethanol and you should be good for a while.   Good to see it all worked out.

I'm pretty sure it hasn't, a guy who knows the truck, and some of it's history, said the last...3  I think, previous owners just took it to truck shows and it always arrived on a trailer. The rest of the time it sat in a building somewhere, for the most part anyway. I did see a picture of it pulling a milk tanker in a parade, and the guy that knew of it saw the same picture and said it was early 2000's and it was a show truck since then.

I might not drive it very far, but I'm going to make it a point to drive it somewhere often. That was the biggest issue with the B53S mixer I had, it sat too much.

We talked to a guy about painting it a month ago, and he just stopped by the other day. He paints right up the road from here in the big building across from the stop sign, where some cars and pickups are sitting, you can see it in the video. He said we would be looking at around 10 grand to paint it and do the body work. That's about twice as much as I expected.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/EoMAyHKYNzdQsbYC9

Here's the one Zina took.

41 minutes ago, 70mackMB said:

Did they build that pull-off for you to take that picture? lol    .....Hippy

I actually saw a picture similar to that before I ever went out there. I just tried to duplicate it, but my little disposable picture taking device wasn't the greatest. I think the picture I saw was taken from that same spot, so they might have made that pull-off for them.

As much as I'd love to have you over for a barbecue, if you can only do one or the other, the museum would be a much more memorable experience...or maybe it wouldn't 🤣 

I've seen Mt. Rushmore, I delivered a water tank to a campground near there in 98 or 99. That's a '98 Freightliner I was driving. All the pictures I took on that trip were taken with disposable 35mm cameras that I bought along the way, so the picture quality wasn't the greatest.

I think they were just getting started on the Crazy Horse monument. I've never seen the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone park either.

18 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:

 Bloody good job getting it sorted, probably need some fine tuning once driving about, but your well on the way now

 

Top job 

 

Paul

Well I can't take much credit, I had lots of helpful advice from people here, especially Freightrain, maint1, and Draggin wagon. And if you get near the 'hood there's always that barbecue!

Or, if you could, the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum is well worth a visit. It's about 2 hours from here, me and Zina got married there. It's right off Interstate 95 in Colonial Heights, Va. Let us know when you're gonna be there, we'll ride down. Maybe 1958FWD will come too.

I'm at the blue dot, the museum is at the red balloon. All we have to do is follow that little gray line.

4 hours ago, mowerman said:

Besides, I’ll be looking more for paps blue ribbon and Jack Daniels4?????????????

We usually make a pit stop here at Bear Swamp Beverage on the way in, just to get ice of course.

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

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.

2 hours ago, Freightrain said:

A mill and a ream will fix worn throttle shaft.  Press new bushing in, presto, good as new.

Changing to different carb would only be an issue of bolt pattern/bore size was odd?  Not sure how interchangeable that stuff is back then?

 

Let me know if you want me to help Tom.  I can even do the throttle shafts for you.

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.

5 hours ago, mowerman said:

Where the hell did you find parts for that thing?

https://www.carbs.us/

19 hours ago, mowerman said:

OK Tom, you got us all hanging on a limb. Let’s get her buttoned up and let us know what she does ha ha

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.

1 hour ago, Geoff Weeks said:

Two common reasons you see long studs: 1 is for a non metallic spacer to isolate the carb from the cast iron manifold to prevent heat from the engine transfering to the carb, the other is when a flow governor is used between the carb and intake.

Since yours has the Holley Centro-vac gov, heat transfer  is the likely reason. should run a lot better with the non-metered air kept out!

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.

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