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Old Oct 22, 2024 | 06:20 PM
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Engine "misfire" and weird things

1974 F250 360

Was running fine - but the stereo started to turn off randomly while driving - no rhyme or reason found. I wired the stereo to a manual switch in place of the ignitiion switched power and now the stereo is fine.

Someone pointed out my ignition switch could be the culprit.

Yesterday, I fired up the truck, and it was misfiring really bad - barely idling - felt like several cylinders were missing.

I've convinced myself to replace the ignition switch (pretty much just gonna do it later tonight) - but.... if that's not it, what would you start looking at?

Oh.... and I fired the truck up today, and it doesn't have the miss today, but sounds like a weird "gurgling" sound while idling as recorded here:
 
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Maybe you got some bad gas ?
 
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Old Oct 22, 2024 | 09:13 PM
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Listened a couple times, I guess the gurgle would stand out if I knew how it sounded last week? Sounded OK tonight.
 
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