Larry,
Little late on this and think John was right that Google? may have showed that area, 40 / 70, to be shut down if early morning.
I had a LP run out to Cape Carteret / Newport area and left at 3am and Google did show the area at exit 301 closed.
I took back roads all this week to work as 40 west had been shut down so guessing going east was too.
For me heading east I got off on NC 401 and picked up NC 70 to bypass all that mess.
Coming back home, 10 am it was all open.

John,
I have a lot of questions when I see the car
What I see and you told me / posted it sounds like a great ride.
Yea the reverse manual valve body transmission takes some time to re-train your brain LOL
I had one in my drag Javelin.
Dave ----

 

The west bound ramp getting onto 40 was open. As was 40 exit 309 to get back onto 70 east. Spent 6 days in and around Marion. I drove the F250 on 37s, it averaged about 18 on the highway, and around 13 in the 2 lane mountain roads.


Nice car John!

 

You will not believe it but DMV pulled my CDL again
Back about a month ago I got a letter saying my Lic. in hand still had the "K" restriction but their paper work (med card cert.) showed I should not and if not fixed by 8-19-23 the Lic. would fall back to car only.

So today I got out of work early and after 3+ hours found they sent another letter about needing more information??
But the big thing is the DOT doctor filled out the paper work wrong again!
This all has to do with the medical waver I need to pass the DOT exam and no one knowing how this all gets filled out!

The DOT Dr. needs to NOT MARK the forum that I need or have a waver. Why in HE11 do they put that box on the forum?
I hope the Dr. can just use the June dates and not mark the waver box.
If not then I will need to get new waver papers, have my 2 eye doctors fill them out and because they did the test back in April they may want me to re-take the tests. Thing is one eye Dr. can not take me in for a few months for the tests and the eye stuff needs to be done before I see the DOT Dr.

Besides all that BS none of the eye stuff is covered by insurance. The DOT Dr. work should pay for but if not then that is on me also.
I did find out the DOT Dr. is on duty tomorrow so I will hit him up early and if he can just un-check the box I can then hit DMV and she told me I do not need to wait in line just come to her.

Work was not happy when I told them I was side lined again.Then I had to tell them Friday was my eye injection so had to have that off also.
Fingers crossed it will be easy this time around and will be back to work on Monday.
Dave ----

 

Man you can't win for losing dealing with all this red tape! I hope all goes smoothly this time.

 

Well no and yes LOL
Hit the DOT Dr first thing and he would not undo the mark on the paper due to if I did something and it came back to him not marking the paper I have this eye issue he could loose his Lic.
Because if he dose not mark the paper it is saying I pass everything and can not (eye test) and there is no where on the paper to show I need a waver!
So I under stand where the DOT Dr. is coming from.

Then went to DMV and they again said as long as the paper is marked "waver" they can not give me my CDL Lic. back.
DMV also printed out 20 pages of why and how this waver thing works (all BS from what I seen) but me looking it over did not see anywhere about "do not mark" the box or add wavier.
Wife called FED GOV. (FMCSA they make the rules for trucking) and got someone to email us something that said "DO NOT MARK" box.

With the 20 pages from DMV and the email I went back to the DOT Dr.and once he saw the "DO NOT MARK" he was good to make the change to the papers.
With the paper NOT MARKED I went back to DMV and this time got it fixed and my Lic. back.
BTW the DOT Dr. is in Cary and the DMV I been dealing with is in Smithfield so I did that trip twice just to get this fixed today.
And I spent 3 hours at DMV yesterday.

In between all this I asked the wife what if I cant get my Lic. back what then as it looked pretty bad at that time.
Lets say she was not happy when I asked.

So I am good till June of next year when my Lic needs to be renewed and to get that I need to renew my TWIC card (Transport Worker Id Card) so renew my finger prints and TWIC needs to be done before the Lic. as I need to take a HAZMAT test to get that on my Lic. for the LP loads I do.
Oh and I would also need to get the eye test done, that is another show I can live without, for the waver papers before seeing the DOT Dr. again.
Because of all that it will be time to retire or not drive any more and find another job.
Dave ----

 

Well yesterday was a really long day. The car show in Littleton NC was about 100 miles from home. We left from Wilsons Mills which is 15 miles from me and it was 85 miles from there. On the way back, after about an hour of driving, we made our second stop at a gas station in Louisburg, that is when Dave split off from the group to head home. The rest of us wanted to stop for ice cream. Well the ice cream place was 1/2 mile from the gas station, and I was the last one pulling out onto 401. Everybody makes a left at the light but when I let off the gas to coast, my car ALMOST dies. Something not right! I pop the throttle a little bit, she seems ok. Come to a stop to wait for traffic to clear and she dies. Won't restart! Two guys in a parking lot next to me offer to push me through the intersection, thank goodness. And it's a downhill into the shopping center so I just coast off into the Mayflower restaurant parking lot. The guys are all next door at Dairy Queen so I walk over there. Explain what happened. I said either I'm losing spark, or else flooding out, because when I try to start it you can just smell unburned gas.

We figured lets enjoy our ice cream and let the car cool down for a few minutes. Head back over there, I have no tools. I found many years ago I jinxed myself by carrying tools so now I don't, and look where that left me. So borrow a screwdriver and pull the coil plug off, crank it over. John Avery about gets fried and yells "oh **** YEAH you got spark!". lol. So we determined the carb was flooding, hold it open and crank and she will fire, but you can tell it was loaded with gas, and then when you let it idle, after 2-3 seconds cuts out again. But no gas coming up out of the overflow.

Meanwhile poking around, one of them found a very dry rotted vacuum cap that was obviously not holding any vacuum anymore under the base of the carburetor. Just a little one, I said I don't think that is my problem, it would still idle with a vacuum leak that size, but you know O'Reilly was just right across the road so Louis ran me over there to buy some vacuum caps. Meanwhile John Avery saw my vacuum advance line was a little loose. The carb fitting and dist fitting are different sizes so I'd jury-rigged it before and now after all these years it was not sealing good. Again, I said, I don't think that is the problem. It wouldn't even be applying a vacuum signal at idle I don't think, because that's the ported fitting. Anyway fixed those 2 vacuum problems, still flooding out.

I call Haggerty to see if they can get me a tow home, they said "hmmm your policy doesn't have roadside assistance, but I can set you up with a tow - however you'd have to pay for it. $747." I said no thanks! Oh and I should have mentioned, we all took turns smacking the top of the carb to see if the float was stuck & could be released that way. I tried the float adjustment fittings but I already have it at the lowest possible setting. But messing with it did not help at all. So somebody said take the float bowl off and see if we can unstick the float. I was remembering how gummed up the gasket was on my F100 holley when I pulled it apart, and was really hesitant about doing that. I said if we open it up that's the point of no return. But we figured our best option, luckily Andy and Paul both had tools, so between them we had the 5/16's needed to pull the front off.

Have to say I was very pleased with how clean the inside of the carb is after 12 years, and the gasket did not stick or fail, just eased off smoothly. Did not see anything obvious wrong with the float, needle, or seat, and it was all working fine after taking it apart. I had the float bowl facing towards me when I was checking all the screws & accelerator pump arm, and ended up squirting gasoline right at my face and directly into my right nostril. That was awful and burned like hell. But not finding anything wrong, so we put it back together and snugged the bolts down, and she ran perfect the rest of the way home.

 

Dang, glad you got it back going to get home.

 

Sorry I did not pull into the station as I thought you were going to talk what way to go home and I planed on down 401 to Cap blvd. to 440 to 40 and home.
With over drive doing 70 is not a big deal and why that way.

Follow up:
Saturday / Sunday I found out what happened, sorry again, and on Sunday John came over to my house.
I could not go to his as wife was taken to the ER by a friend and did not want to get to far from home till I knew what was going on.
Any way I adjusted the float level and showed John how, not that either of us will remember what way to turn the nut LOL so he can do it if he wants but it should be good for ever now.

I think between the stop at the gas station with it running and then moving the carb got heat soaked and was boiling the gas in the bowl.
John did not see fuel out the vent so the float was not stick but if the gas boiled it could not run on vapor from the boiled gas.
I also told John they make a thicker carb gasket and sent him a link, that he could run to insulate the carb from the hot intake manifold and see if that helps.
Now that it should be cooling off he may not have this issue again (fingers crossed).

Next weekend is a show in Four Oaks that is pretty close but John will be away.
Then the weekend after show is in Pine Level also not too far but hope cooler by them.
Dave ----

 

Hi Dave, the more the I think about it, the less I think that vapor lock could explain it.The symptoms of flooding, not fuel starving. Including liquid gasoline when I pulled off the ported vacuum lead going to the distributor. It just was not coming out the overflow on the top for some reason.

Remember that thing I sent you a picture of? I think I found it on the page. Right above the metering block.
https://documents.holley.com/techlib...loded_view.pdf



Number 117 looks like the thing we found on the intake after removing the float bowl.

Maybe it came out and got jammed against the float? I cannot quite figure out what it is supposed to do. But I think we should take the float bowl off and reinstall it.

 

Been working crazy hours this week.
We will get together when you get back to see what we can on that part and get it back where it belongs.
Dave ----

 

Just a thought is your carb a side hung float?
Don't think I have worked on one of them and why I had not seen that part before.
Dave ---

 

The float is on the front:

 

I get home sometime Monday and off Tuesday so I can look at that part to see if I know what it is.
What would be a good time to reach out to you Tuesday?
Dave ----

 

Better take a rain check; I was feeling run-down Saturday and left the show early. My wife was feeling bad too. Both of us achy. Sneezing, coughing. Fever. She went to the doctor Monday afternoon and tested positive for covid. I'm assuming I have it too. They said 5 days quarantine starting from Saturday. I am starting to feel better, not as achy as before anyway. Hopefully by the weekend I will be good to go.

 

My Mary thought Covid last week but it was the weather and all our fur kids after a test.
I hope you and wife are feeling better. Do you think you got it on your trip?
Maybe if you are better by next weekend I can see the part then.
Dave ----