It is now 8 degrees here with the wind chill around -8. I cant work on the truck outside and dont have ventilation in the heated garage to work on dialing in a carb but like I said I think I have it and just need to wait till this sunday when the weather is supposed to break and give us some of those ultra warm 35 degree days. Then I can check to see if it is running well and play if need be. Thanks for the encouragement guys it is a huge help.
Cbass

 

Yeah we are giving you a hard time about getting it fixed, while my truck is sitting in the garage and I haven't really done anything since Thanksgiving... No money

 

It is always something for me, for once I have a little extra cash, a little extra time and of course it is cold and now it is supposed to snow up to 8" today. I also started a new house project that will take a solid week to finish at least but is well worth it.
Cbass

 

LOL....

OK, -8 is a valid excuse. Its more of an excuse than I have. Heck, I'm just lazy. My truck us buried in the garage. I just need to get off my rear and clean the garage a bit to drive it.

Good luck with it
Bobby

 

OK....it's nicer out today...get to work!!

Just out of curiousity....pull a spark plug & take a plug reading. The ceramic should be a nice tan color. If it's too lean it'll be almost white.

For a plug reading, drive it for a while, then park it and shut it down...don't let it idle for a long time because idle is always a little rich & will blacken up the plugs.

Considering your comment on the choke...if you're lean across the board, maybe your carb is jetted for a higher altitude. Since you've done all of the other carb work that you mentioned, main jets should be pretty easy to change (yes...you have to pull the top of the carb off, but you really don't even have to remove the carb base from the engine).

Dan

 

Nicer today but I am at the fire house. Might find some time tomorrow depending on where I get on the home project. I dont even know where to start Jetting, 58, 60? Dont know what is in there right now, I might have it written down from when I did everything else but I am not sure.

 

So the saga continues, I went through and changed the springs on the dizzy (a lot snappier off the line) and went through the carb but still have a slight bog or anchor feel in second but it is a bit better so I might try changing the jets or the accelerator nozzle but the real problem is for the first time the radiator boiled over and shot water all over the engine compartment. I just checked the level and it was good last week and even when it was doing this the temp gauge was perfect in the middle. Any ideas on this?
Cbass

 

Ok, one test drive down and it was fantastic. I went ahead and replaced the thermostat and the level of the fluids to fix the boil over problem. I guess I had unplugged the temp. gauge last time I was under the hood so that is fixed as well. I took the dizzy out and went back to the springs I had in it and also changed the MSD dizzy curb limitor from 21 to 25. I took the carb apart and went from 50 main jets to 58. I made sure the float level was perfect, think it was a little low so that was not helping. Then I tuned the timing and carb using the vacuum gauge method. Like I said I took it for a quick drive and it was amazing. I am taking it for a longer drive in 15 min and if anything changes I will let you all know, otherwise I thank you all for all the help it is just amazing what I have learned and how much better it drives even from when I started.
Thanks
Cbass

 

From 50 to 58 is a HUGE jump! It will mostly affect 50% throttle and up. Check your plugs after a good run. Is it possible you have the power valve and the spark control valves switched? (see pic) They look very similar but operate opposite of each other.

For instance the jet change going from sea level to 5,000 ft is from stock 51 to 50 (or 49 at most) on a flathead with the same carb (essentially).

 

Ross, I was working off the information I could find on the holley 2300. From what I could find it looked like either 54 or 56 main jets were what my 292 should have had stock and so I went up to the 58 from the 50 but I had the 56 and 54 in case this was to high of a correction. I am not sure but I dont think that the power valve on the 2300 can be confused with anything but saying that has confused me so again I could be wrong. Thanks for the help, I drove it again to the lumber yard with the neighbor and it drove like a dream. I could not be more happy, I really hope it continues to drive like this.
Cbass

 

If it starts to push black smoke like our diesel boys trucks? You might be a redneck
Keep us posted!
Black smoke is fuel
Blue smoke is oil
white smoke is coolant/water
Green smoke? well...can't help ya there...

 

I thought you had a 2100? That would be the stock Y-block carb AFAIK. Does it look similar to the picture above?

 

In 58, the 292 f100 came with the 2300 as the stock holley. I know that some of the 272 had the 2100 and maybe the earlier 292? not sure about that. It doesnt look anything like that, looks like the 4 barrel Holley that you see everywhere but without the secondary.
No smoke in either of the drives today, hope it stays that way.
Thanks guys
Cbass

 

Woohooo
I'm glad to hear that you are making progress!!

Very good
Bobby

 

That's good news....drive it for a while and do that spark plug check!

Dan