ouch man... sorry to hear about you truck,,,

 

welp time to go back to pretending to work... have fun ppls

 

A carb change is a pretty easy way to get broke in!!! If ya start seeing you have a problem, give us a yell here....Charlie may be physically down, but his brain and fingers at at full strength!!!

 

Heck if any of the other guys are close in the chapter that can do this, give them a shout!

 

Sometimes I wonder what Glenmont looks like - but I bet it looks just like it did ten years ago


GO FIGURE

THOT FER the DAY:

It's better to figure out what your wheels act like in a wet parking lot - than to find out later when it really matters

What I am telling you is that you should practice driving in a skid zone

 

Good Morning everyone. It's almost Friday.
Thanks guys, I will see whats up by the weekend with the truck.

 

Morning Rick, hope you can get that thing straightened out!

 

Yea me too Pat. Like i was saying, I'm to the point that it's running but after reading around the fourms on here im gonna see what all he has done. I know before he said she would run but once you put it in gear she would fall on her face and from reading on here you need to use a larger diameter return line for the excess fuel. I know he has put a regulator on the line to lower the preasure at the carb and when I drove it around the yard she had power but was sputtering some but that was prob due to the fact that it was just about out of gas.

 

Morning Charlie, Bud, Rick, Pat and everyone that drops by.

Rick, good luck with your truck and hopefully everything will work out.

 

You have to take the in tank fuel pump out. There is no way to take a 55lb pump down to a 7lb pump. It's probably filling the oil pan with gas. especially if it has no return line

 

Morning Neil, Charlie.

 

Thanks Charlie. I think we had talked about this before when I was thinking about doing it myself and you had said to use a mechanical pump correct?

 

morning landers...

 

You can get an aftermarket electric pump. Remove the fuel pump off the hanging assy, then put a piece of 3/8 fuel inew where it was. put a strainer off a 70's car on there. that way you can put the hanging assy back in, and still have a fuel guage.


If you have too much fuel pressure on a carb, it will push the needle open, and gas will flow through even if the float is holding the line closed.


I would still use a return line, it will keep you from getting vapor lock on those hot summer days in traffic

 

Good Morning everyone! Charlie, I went to the shop yesterday and talked with the actual mechanic that has been doing the work on my truck and he told me he did actually swap the pump to get the preasure right and rebuilt the carb so all is good now. He said the only thing he has to do is weld on the proper bracket for the downshift cable for the tranny and all is good.