throw that air filter away! that is a huge fire hazard, if it back fires thru the carb, you will lose the truck

 

Found another decent filter setup that could clear for now. Sadly can't run a big filter thanks to all the extra crap around the carb. Fine by me for now I can remove the element from the triangle filter and keep the screen for racing and **** and have that other one for the daily.

 

So some stuff has been done over the past few days.




So I started today by getting ride of the power steering and A/c for good since all that stuff is dead weight and useless to me now. I also got an okay cheapo filter to get me through the winter.



Down here you can see a close up of my oil line and block off plate. I think i got a leak there with the line but I am not sure at this point and time.






My current exhaust setup. One side was already there with hangers so I kept it and ran flex pipe on the other side and made some basic brackets out of exhaust clamps and pieces of metal.


Holley pump in place and ready for work.



Kinda a cool view.



Tried pulling my fuel through the old pump. Turns out that won't work. So I went to AutoZone and ordered a carb sending unit for a truck like mine for the same style fuel tank. Gonna install that in the morning hopefully.



Already dropped the tank today in preparation for tomorrow. Now one thing I should note the carb would sit there and run fine at idle with a slightly low fuel pressure all day but because of the way the pump pulls the fuel it doesn't suck very well making it kinda a struggle for it to do this but it will sorta work. I tried using both pumps at the same time and was rewarded with a flooded carb spitting gas everywhere.

 

Ewwww I do not approve that exhaust!

 

On a personal level I really agree. But for costs sake that is all I could afford at the moment was to reuse some of the old exhaust and do the flex pipe. The main reason for the flex pipe was because the old exhaust could not clear the cross-member and the bolts to the collector on that side will not budge for me.

Money is tight for me but when spring comes and I get full time hours again at work I am going to have a shop do it all from header back the way I want it. I want two 12 inch glass-packs as mufflers An H pipe for better flow and two tail pipes that exit out the rear behind the axle as side pipes. But for now straight piped and dumping under the bed works.

 

Yea I know the drill, just bustin ya bawallz

 

You just bustin dem bawallz up real good. Gotta bust em every once in a blue moon.

I just ran a line to the fuel tank without the old EFI fuel pump in the way a few minutes ago. Gonna test it and post up some pictures real soon.

 

why didn't you just get the 88-90 low flow style in tank fuel pumps?

 

I bought one for an 84 thinking things were the same size hole wise in the top of the tank only to find out that there is a difference in sizes. The setup I had gotten had a super small base and would not fit so I modded up the stock one for now. The gauge never worked on that tank anyways so I'm not worried about knowing I track the miles on this truck. That does bring up a good question is the 88-90 one's the same size? Because that is a item I would invest in one day only for ease of knowing when I am out of fuel.

Now onwards to other stuff. I got an engine problem and while I feel I am on the right track I need to make sure I am doing this right.

The engine runs great for what it is but its low on oil pressure, and I mean LOW, it can't build crap at idle with 10-30w oil and it will build okay pressure with 20-50w (45psi cold idle 15 psi hot idle and 35 psi hot at 3 Grand) it will not build anymore than that hot 3 grand psi as I go up through the rev range. No werid knocks or anything but from what I understand this engine was built loose. I belive at about the stock limit of 2.5 thou clearance in the bottom end. My solution to this issue was a high volume oil pump to fix this problem but am I really on the right track with this? I wanna make sure because if I am pulling the engine up to change this pump I want it right the second time none of this third times the charm crap .

Any advice from someone that knows more about building an engine than me? I might seem hard headed on here sometimes but I really do want to learn this stuff so I can do it right. I hate fixing my own half butted crap two weeks afterwards.

Thanks in advance

Shadow.

 

sounds actually similar to the issue I have going on, that I don't know the answer to the problem yet, but for the tank question, I don't think the tanks are the same, but I believe the hole size is

 

also if you have a fram filter take it off and toss it and put a motorcraft filter, its a known oil pressure issue

 

Interesting issue.

I will also note that I went to the inspectors today to see what would fly and what would not. Turns out I still need cats for this thing................Good thing I kept my gutted ones to reuse as well as the old mufflers. (Dude ripped my head off about it and I really don't blame him honestly) A few odds and ends need to be fixed like the parking brake cables (easy fix I am just lazy and hate fighting them out of their homes) as well as the steering box. I was told that if I find a manuel steering box I could put it on this truck and be legal. but because the PS lines are there its gotta friggin work or that won't fly. So off to the junkyard as well for that. Aiming for around an 80-85ish truck with a good feeling box like that.

I also gotta re aim a headlamp as well as fix the reverse lights that apparently don't work AGAIN. And then put another wiper on this pig and she is legal and road worthy. I will be doing that stuff in the mean time while I wait and figure out the engine so I am not wasting my time.

 

Nah I use nothing but Motorcraft on my Fords. I trust nothing else. Fram is a huge no no for me.

 

 

Oil pressure: Fixed. Water pump: Bi directional so fixed. And gauges/fixed blowby issue/daily driven for 500 miles. Results. Needs a proper pickup tube that won't break off inside of the tank and leave me on the side of the road. Other than that. She's PERFECT. Cam lumps and bumps at idle like a race-car, and the glass-packs on this machine make it sound nasty when pinned. But she drives and behaves enough for me to daily without issues on the main roads and even with that cam still hauled a load of gravel heavy enough to bottom out on the axle and asked for more. More pictures to come soonish. I hope XD