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May 23, 2008 | 12:20 PM

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imlowr2

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Yeah I was watching one of the other threads on rejetting the carb. It's something I've wanted to do for a while, just now getting to it. I have a 390 Holley on my flattie, and it's been running rich since installed no matter what amount of tuning I do. I took the old jets out and went to a local parts store and found out the jets I've been running are "bogus" according to the parts guy. The numbers stamped on them was something like "5T" and an upside down "2". Didn't match anything he had on Holley parts, but his store is also a machine shop so he broke out a drill bit set with the smallest bits I've seen, and found what size the jets actually were. Only problem is he had to order the new ones and they're still not in yet. Maybe later today. For what it's worth, I got the truck fired up after the electronic ignition conversion...nice and smooth idle and revs nice. Pretty easy conversion and I thought was fairly inexpensive at $54.

The jets in your holley may be Ford jets. Several of the older Fords had 2 barrel Holleys on them. The jets for the Autolite 2100 carbs are often inchangable with the older Holleys. If fact, there are various Harley Davidson carbs that also have jets that will fit on a holley carb. I accidentally put the wrong jets in a holley once and they still worked and ran fine. Never heard of "bogus" jets before? Unfortunately, but it's rare to find jets with the numbers in tack. For whatever reason they are never stamped clearly and often difficult to read.

May 23, 2008 | 03:01 PM

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bobbytnm

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For whatever reason they are never stamped clearly and often difficult to read.

Ed, It probably has nothing to do with eyeballs that are getting older huh?
LOL... I've found that lately I have to take the danged things out into direct sunlight, go through a complicated manuever of moving them closer and then farther away while squinting and holding my tongue just right before I can even start to make out what the numbers might be.....

Bobby

May 23, 2008 | 05:17 PM

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imlowr2

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I guess your right bobby!

I need those glasses for simple tasks now. I've even gone so far as using a magnifying glass and glasses to read the numbers. Maybe sitting here for hours on FTE isn't helping much either.
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May 23, 2008 | 06:55 PM

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eman92082

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Ok, here's the deal with Reading Glasses......

You have your "Go To" set with the neck strap on at all times. These get bent to hell and scratched but become a part of you. When you wake up in the morning, they are on your night stand quickly within reach. Throughout the day, they often get food dropped on them while they hang around your neck.

Then, you have the serious 3.75 or more version you keep in the top of the Roll-Away. When you need to read jets or examine threads etc etc.

You also have the nice pair without the strap that you seldom use. The ones you keep in your shirt pocket to read a Menu when you go out.

I think that about covers it.....

I think that about handles it.

May 23, 2008 | 07:02 PM

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eman92082

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Oops, I forgot a few.

There's also the set you keep in your glove box should you forget or lose the "Go To" set and, the set you keep at work for the same reason. These are usually the older discarded sets that are no longer strong enough but they get you by in a pinch.

May 23, 2008 | 07:02 PM

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havi

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Somehow I have to agree with what was said. I don't wear glasses, but my wife does, and I think she has atleast 3 pair laying around at all times. Lucky for me, none of them are out in the garage where they may get scratched or worse....full of grease, oil, brake cleaner, paint overspray, etc...

May 24, 2008 | 09:55 AM

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I'm like Havi, I dont wear glases at all, but cause my eyes are so good, I have to wear sunglasses, if not I get migraine headaches

I run a 13 shade lens in my welding helmet, and I have sunglasses all over the place like eman said

It's funny if someone new comes in to the shop and uses my welding helmet, they fuss and cant see out of it

May 24, 2008 | 10:21 AM

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imlowr2

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I didn't need glasses until my mid 40's. My father and mother were the same way. I only use them for reading or upclose. I have about 5 pairs laying around. 3 of them are in my garage.

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May 24, 2008 | 02:02 PM

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I have one eyeball that looks like a football (i.e. an astigmatism) I typically only wear my glasses if I have to spend all day in my office in front of the computer.

When I started assembling the circuit board for my MegaSquirt I had to go out and buy one of those magnifying lights so I could see what I was soldering.

This getting old isn't what its cracked up to be.....

Bobby

May 24, 2008 | 06:40 PM

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Truxx1956

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I didn't need glasses until my mid 40's. My father and mother were the same way. I only use them for reading or upclose. I have about 5 pairs laying around. 3 of them are in my garage.

Thats what alot of my friends tell me. I'm 37 now, and I see great!! Sometimes too great, when I get a flash or see the sun out of the corner of my eye.

May 24, 2008 | 11:14 PM

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dongc1

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You're right about the getting old part. It is not for sissy's. I got a hole in my retina in my right eye, for no apparent reason, and the vitreous jelly inside my eye filled with blood and I couldn't see anything out of that eye. After a month they did a vitrectomy and I could see again. The worst part was the other eye had a cataract and I couldn't see well out of it either. It was a month from H**l. After I recovered from the vitrectomy they did cataract surgery on the left eye. I then could see real well again. The next step is, the vitrectomy causes a cataract to form. So now my right eye is getting the cataract. Within 6 months I will have to have cataract surgery on the right eye. Hopefully it will go as well as the left eye and all will be well again. The left eye is perfect now 20-20. Just another stage of growing old!! It relly sucks!