converting to a carb
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Mountain Pass
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converting to a carb
have a 85 f 150 with a 302. swapping out the tb to carb and i have a question or two... is there anyway i can use the original distributor? can i use the electric fuel pump to supply the carb as the 302 doesn't have the cutout for the mechanical pump...i am sure some of you out there has done it, help a brother out
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I hate to be that guy... Enjoying my 302EFI, I wonder what the benefit is of doing what you are asking ?
Started mine yesterday for the first time in a month, I let the fuel pump prime, engine cranked about four times and started and went to fast idle. I drove it some 12 miles, most of it highway, and put it back in its parking spot. I used it to return empty plastic bottle to the recycle machine. At 10 cents a bottle, I got $2.40.
Sorry I can't be more help, but I think what your asking has been addressed here. Have you asked google, how to convert a 85 Ford F150 302EFI to a carb ?
Started mine yesterday for the first time in a month, I let the fuel pump prime, engine cranked about four times and started and went to fast idle. I drove it some 12 miles, most of it highway, and put it back in its parking spot. I used it to return empty plastic bottle to the recycle machine. At 10 cents a bottle, I got $2.40.
Sorry I can't be more help, but I think what your asking has been addressed here. Have you asked google, how to convert a 85 Ford F150 302EFI to a carb ?
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a few years ago it had problems and at least 5 different "mechanics" worked on it screwing up the wiring to the point many were cut and ripped out... the wiring is a mess under the hood... this truck needs to be buried somewhere but my kids father in law loves the thing, it is one screwed up old farm truck... some local kids put an intake on it and discovered the distributor off of a 67 f 100 wouldnt fit and gave up on it.. now it is in my shop and would like to just get rid of all of the garbage and finish their conversion...
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https://www.garysgaragemahal.com/
That site is where we get a lot of info on the wiring, etc. for these trucks.
You'll get help here, just not today, maybe. Happy Easter.
https://www.google.com/search?q=conv...hrome&ie=UTF-8
That site is where we get a lot of info on the wiring, etc. for these trucks.
You'll get help here, just not today, maybe. Happy Easter.
https://www.google.com/search?q=conv...hrome&ie=UTF-8
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https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...carb-swap.html
Check out the "related threads" below that thread.
Check out the "related threads" below that thread.
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Get a HEI distributor off of Amazon or Ebay and stick that in there. You could get the original TFI distributor to work, and the engine would run, just not that well. The timing would stay where you set it. If you set it at 10 BTDC, then that is where the timing would be at all rpms. The computer worked with that old distributor to move the timing. Without the computer the timing is just stuck where you set it.
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im going to get a 1 wire gm style distributor, i did that on a 390 in an old f700 dump and it was great... i will have to run an electric fuel pump but im getting the old tank pickup with one out line and no return... the throttle is another thing but ill cross that bridge when i get there.. ripping wires out everywhere under the hood and getting a one wire alternator too.... im gonna make that engine compartment look like my 1966 f250... uncluttered...lol
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