I Have Owned 7 Ford Pickups And One F350 Flatbed.they Were A63 Unibody 250 223 6,a 64 292 100 Shortbox,a65 250 300-6which I Still Own And Drive Daily,a66 100-352 ,a 65 100-352,an F350-352.an 86 250-302 And A 92-302 Fwd Short Box.none Of Them Ever Got Good Mileage But Really Enjoyed Every One Of Them.a Full Size Ford Pickemup Aint Made For Fuel Economy,at Least None I Ever Had. Jmho.

 

Icicle: 1 brl carb Ford
66 beater: temp at winter below 1/2 and at summer rarely gets to 3/4 on the gauge.

 

this is out of my 61-63 shop manual, yours should be similar enough I would think that this will help you.....



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That is an excellent description of the color.......


Hope that helps you....

 

Icicle: your link is not working ( blocked).

 

I ddint post it as a link, I posted it as a picture, which club FTE memebers are allowed to do, straight out of the horses mouth.

Apparently it got changed to a link by a moderator......sigh

It works for me, I just clicked on it, so im not sure what "blocked" means, is it working for everyone else? I sure hope the link at 28kb saves everyone all that precious loading time of 1/2 second at dial up speeds, because now it wastes my time of many minutes to try and help someone....

 

Blocked means forbidden like for the hunky punky sites, this is the rules goes down here.

Any how thanks for the effort, but I wish you could tell me which way to lean the mixture, clockwise or the opposit way, you know what I mean.
Hamid.

 

You're not gonna get much done with the idle/air screw at the base of the carb. That only adjusts the idle and part throttle mixtures.

What I'd do is drop the fuel level just a bit. There's probably a tang on the float you bend to adjust the height of the fuel in the bowl. Tweak it up just a bit so it closes the needle and seat sooner. That will lower the fuel level which will result in leaner mixtures at all operating ranges.

Watch your plugs tho. That marshmallow tan description at the tip is right on and what you don't want is gray. That's lean meaning it's getting too hot in there and ultimately you could hurt a piston, so be careful.

What would be even better is a rebuild kit. That'll have a new needle and seat and usually there's instructions on where to set the float. Besides a good soaking in carb dip the only other issue is the pump circuit. May be a diaphragm, could be a piston type. Usually there are associated checkballs to keep the circuit full. But it's that simple.

The only thing that normally kills a garage guy on rebuilding these old carbs is a worn throttle shaft. The resulting intake leak past the shaft messes up the idle circuit.

Hope that helps.

 

It must be some setting that you have, I just clicked on it and it worked.

Icicle, The perfered method of sharing images is by linking them, and doing so from your gallery. Most folk don't know how to resize them so that they fit in the window. Others may not want to look at them at all. It does give an interested member a chance to see it without spilling the text over mulitable frames on the ones that are too large. Your link was too large and I asked up and it was addressed.

John

 

I filled the tank, drove about 3/4 of tank, filled again and clclated as follows:
old milage : 71542
new milage : 71651
consumed milage: 109
fuel consumed: 11.1 Gallons
MPG=consumed milage/ fuel consumed = 109/ 11.1= 9.819 MPG


I think my truck fuel sys needs some work.

 

Well that 9-10 mpg is about what I get with my 262-6. I have a Dana 60 rear end - with the 4:10 ratio. That is about as good as I can ever get. I have tweaked the float setting, the screw - and that is about all you can do with these one-bbls (right?).