Back in action!
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From: Dryden Canada
Back in action!
Hey everybody! It's been a while since I've been on, but I come back bearing great news - my truck is finally back on the road!
For those who may not remember (all of you), I hit a deer with it last July and spent the rest of the summer and fall trying to put it back together. The big holdup was the radiator, which I got this spring, put it all together, and the bloody thing would NOT start!
I tried everything I could think of to get it going again ... and last night I finally figured out the problem (or so I think at least). The air/fuel mixture screw at the base of the 1bbl carb was only about a half turn out ... probably closer to a quarter turn. It didn't take much to fully seat it anyway. It was in enough that no matter HOW much I pumped the gas pedal I couldn't get it to even flood the engine. Anyway, I backed it out the standard 1.5 turns, poured a shot of gas down the carb and BOOM BABY! We had ignition. Then we found a new problem. The pulley on the power steering pump was FUBAR. 
I mean about a 2 inch wobble. The core support must have hit it and bent it. All I knew was it had to go. Luckily I had one on the parts truck that was pretty much identical. So we swapped them out. It's a little loud, probably from not being used in years, but does the trick. Took it for a test drive after I rocked it a bit to get the E-brake to let loose. It was a little stuck from sitting for 10 months.
It seems like all systems are a-go, but I'm wondering a couple of things.
1 - Will the noisy power steering pump quiet down? It sounds like it's perpetually low on fluid, but it's not.
2 - There looked like a fluid stain under the rear end where the center of the axle would have been. What should I watch or listen for if the fluid did in fact leak out of the rear end? It sounded fine when I was driving around, but I'm not entirely sure what to watch/listen for.
Thanks for the help as always!!
Chris Pollard
Dryden, ON
84 F-150 2WD ... back to the land of the living.
For those who may not remember (all of you), I hit a deer with it last July and spent the rest of the summer and fall trying to put it back together. The big holdup was the radiator, which I got this spring, put it all together, and the bloody thing would NOT start!
I tried everything I could think of to get it going again ... and last night I finally figured out the problem (or so I think at least). The air/fuel mixture screw at the base of the 1bbl carb was only about a half turn out ... probably closer to a quarter turn. It didn't take much to fully seat it anyway. It was in enough that no matter HOW much I pumped the gas pedal I couldn't get it to even flood the engine. Anyway, I backed it out the standard 1.5 turns, poured a shot of gas down the carb and BOOM BABY! We had ignition. Then we found a new problem. The pulley on the power steering pump was FUBAR. I mean about a 2 inch wobble. The core support must have hit it and bent it. All I knew was it had to go. Luckily I had one on the parts truck that was pretty much identical. So we swapped them out. It's a little loud, probably from not being used in years, but does the trick. Took it for a test drive after I rocked it a bit to get the E-brake to let loose. It was a little stuck from sitting for 10 months. It seems like all systems are a-go, but I'm wondering a couple of things.
1 - Will the noisy power steering pump quiet down? It sounds like it's perpetually low on fluid, but it's not.
2 - There looked like a fluid stain under the rear end where the center of the axle would have been. What should I watch or listen for if the fluid did in fact leak out of the rear end? It sounded fine when I was driving around, but I'm not entirely sure what to watch/listen for.
Thanks for the help as always!!
Chris Pollard
Dryden, ON
84 F-150 2WD ... back to the land of the living.
