other dog

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.

On 4/30/2024 at 8:15 PM, Joey Mack said:

I just found this Posting,,  I like the subject matter..  Not sure why it died off.. seems like a lot of great Americans commented on this one.. BTW,,  4 White cops were shot and killed in Charlotte yeterday, by a Non-White career criminal..  It is terrible!!  if the table was turned, the Lib's would have already called it a race based shooting..  WTF??

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

No, I cleaned the needle and seat and cleaned out the float bowl, and sprayed 2 cans of carburetor cleaner everywhere, that's about it. The top came off easy, but I didn't go much further taking anything apart because I was afraid I'd tear the gaskets. When I found a piece of debris between the needle and seat I thought sure I had solved the problem.

22 hours ago, Mean Green said:

How did this go from a cool international sleeper cab to cell phones . Tommy you better post us some good progress pics to get us back on track !!

I wish I could, but it's kinda in limbo right now. I took the carburetor off and cleaned it as best I could, but it still won't run unless the choke is nearly closed. Checked and rechecked and checked again for vacuum leaks and found nothing. I'm going to take the carburetor back off tomorrow and send it to a carburetor fixing place.

Dragging wagon told me I needed to start at the gas tank

and go to the carburetor, so that's where I'm at now.

On 4/29/2024 at 2:43 PM, mowerman said:

I had an android Motorola was my first smart phone. I think . That thing worked a lot better especially with the voice text. Latest iPhone cost me close to $1000 and I really don’t think it’s worth a shit iPhone 15. I think my 8 plus actually works better. I only upgraded because I was starting to have trouble with the touchscreen. I thought OK well I’m still making good money. I might as well get rid of the old one. Also big Verizon is a big rip off. They don’t even give me any discounts or freebies anymore.

The best and most durable phone I ever had was a Motorola flip phone.

On 4/24/2024 at 5:02 AM, mrsmackpaul said:

What's the current state of affairs with the new ride

Any luck yet ??

 

Paul

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.

I'm going out there and try to see what I can see on the carburetor but I'm waiting for it to warm up a little. We had frost here this morning and it's only up to the lower 50's now. I'm going to try to take that pressure regulator off and look at it. I won't know what I'm looking at, but I'll look.

The gas had to go through 3 filters before it got that far but that doesn't mean much, it was still running on that crappy gas when it was running. It has the in-line filter, a little canister type filter, then the electric fuel pump has a filter in it too.

21 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

$3.35/ gal.  87 octane here..  it goes up and down often. .10 - .15 cents at a time...  

I put $23 worth of non ethanol in my 5 gallon can for this truck sitting in the driveway that doesn't run.