The auto choke carb appears that it will clear everything.
The manual choke pull is on the right side of the carb.

With everything else I have been reading about the auto chokes, I am going to go with it.
The heat stove will be easy to make, especially since I am redoing the rest of the exhaust. I am going to go as suggested above with ramhorn manifolds.

 

 

Really appreciate the heads up on stuff. All I know about y blocks is what I have been reading the last couple weeks, so I am going to try my best to stay humble, and absorb all the information I can.
Been a part of A LOT of different forums and so far this has been the most open and friendly one by far, seems like a good group of people here.
I am a machinist, fabricator, welder, mechanic, own and run a machine shop. I do mainly industrial and marine stuff these days.

I have not had it running yet, but I did pull the valve covers and turn it by hand, engine turns over by hand nicely and everything moves as it should. I was planning on verifying valve train oil flow as soon as its running. Should get a chance to get it running this weekend. The p.o. claimed he had it running of the original tank until the filter plugged up with rust. The in cab tank is very rusty, which doesnt really break my heart as ide rather have one under the truck. He started installing an in bed tank for it and I am going to roll with that for the time being since its already installed, empty, and clean inside. Step 1 is just get it running, moving, and stopping on its own. Going into this, I hadnt really had an engine game plan at all, I have several other engines that were all potential candidates. But the more I get into the y block stuff, the more I just wanna keep it going with this 292. If its the original engine, down the road I will pull it and rebuild it a bit more hot. If its not the original engine, I will likely keep it running and get another y block to build and when its ready swap it out.

 

 

A very nice looking 1960 shop manual came with the truck. Honestly I havent gotten a chance to thumb through it, havent even really gotten to do much at all to the truck besides look at it prior to buying it and turning the engine over by hand. This weekend (hopefully) will be the first time I really get to get into it.

Bummer on engine matching, not really a biggie though I suppose, just kinda a neat thing. It has the original flatbed on it which is pretty cool.

 

 

Ended up with a couple jobs that walked through the door....So i didnt get to work on the beast this weekend :/ going to try again tomorrow eve.

 

She runs. Fired right up actually. Valve train is getting oil, and she doesn't smoke at all.

This was with the manual carb that was on it with no choke hooked up at all and old fuel in the bowl. I just hooked up the fuel tank with a new inline filter and figured ide turn the key and see what would happen.

I have a kit for the auto choke carb and I'm going to rebuild it. I'll pop this one open and clean the bowl in the manual choke carb and roll with it for now until I find some ram horn manifolds and do the exhaust in this. I may just buy a set of the Mummert ones instead of trying to get good used ones.

 

Congratulations and welcome to the Y-block world. I recently revived my 292 and bought John Mummert's rams horns. Good used OEMs are getting pretty rare. The truck finally sounds the way I've wanted it to since I got it in 1978. I think you'll be pleased. One note: I was surprised to learn the threads for the exhaust flange bolts are 10mm! That's the only thing metric on my truck!