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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 04-Jan-02 AT 10:05 PM (EST)]Bought an 83 F-150 with a 302 last Friday and it quit on Saturday.
Getting fuel in the carb, got spark, new module, computer, rotor. This truck is origanally from Montana (Calif. emmissions?) now sitting in Florida Has carb but my mechanic says there are also some fuel injection parts in there and they have never seen anything like it. Luckily this guy is pretty cool and wont burn me on hours, but I want this thing on the road any ideas would be appreciated otherwise I'll havee him modify the whole system to something he and/or I can work on Thanks
Getting fuel in the carb, got spark, new module, computer, rotor. This truck is origanally from Montana (Calif. emmissions?) now sitting in Florida Has carb but my mechanic says there are also some fuel injection parts in there and they have never seen anything like it. Luckily this guy is pretty cool and wont burn me on hours, but I want this thing on the road any ideas would be appreciated otherwise I'll havee him modify the whole system to something he and/or I can work on Thanks
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What about compression? If it's got fuel and spark and compression, it's got to run, or spit back out of the carb if the timing chain slipped or something like that. The only other senario I've seen when you have everything, but it just cranks and does nothing is, when it's severely flooded.
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Did you check the needle and seats are adjusted correctly? I had my 351W do the same thing today. I just got done rebuilding it. If you have a Holley on there it will be easy. I am not too sure of FoMoCO carbs. Been too long since I had one. Anyway, you may be flooding your engine because the carb bowl floats are set to high. Check to see where your floats are adjusted to and go from there. I had to adjust mine down. They were way too high. Caused the fuel to choke out the engine. After I made the adjustment the truck runs like a bat out of hell. Hope this helps.
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