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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.

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.

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.

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

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".

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.

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

I got a gas gauge when I got the sending unit, but it didn't get a bracket because it was almost as much as the gauge. You'd think it would come with a bracket but it didn't. I figured I'd pick up a "cheap"- if there's any such thing anymore- oil pressure or temp. gauge at the parts store for it and use the bracket. The original gauge in the truck didn't budge. But I still have my stick.

I've posted the first truck I drove for H.H. Moore Jr. before, it was a '74 Transtar too, red with white stripes, had a VT 903 in it with a 13 speed direct transmission. I don't have a single picture of that first one, it was white and had a gray stripe and a maroon stripe around the cab.

That's another thing we used to think about when we were moving. We moved from Gladys, Va. to Spout Spring, Va. Google says it's 33 miles. And after we moved enough stuff here to start staying here we'd stay here during the week and move on weekends. And every time we'd go over to Gladys we'd say "hope no squatters moved in during the week".