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- 1985
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I've been looking at completing a Duraspark conversion here pretty soon but I'm having issues finding a carb. A friend of mine gave me a motorcraft carb that once installed created a bad vacuum leak. It wouldn't seal properly. Mine has a plastic spacer between the carb and EGR plate and the show stopper was the plastic spacer.
With that in mind I'm also considering a Holley 350 but my question is will it mount to the intake or is another intake in order and for that matter which one if it needs to be replaced or is there an adaptor plate that is needed?
None of the salvage yards around here seem to have anything so would a motorcraft from a small V8 in a car or truck work? I have all of the conversion parts but I can't seem to come up with the 64-5242 carb listed on the tech pages (maybe under different PN).
Main reason for the conversion is for the ease of maintenance and hopefully better fuel economy as my B2 currently is getting 9.5 to 10 MPG's on a good day (maybe a choke issue too) when it used to get 15 to 17.
I have already installed a switch on the dash to take care of the TCC function for the transmission and also a huge trans cooler w/ an external filter as well.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and if I have forgotten anything that you need to know let me know and I'll try to answer questions along the way, thanks for any help in advance.
I'm also looking for a fuel level sending unit if anybody can come up with a part number that would be way cool too. I think I've looked pretty much everywhere and can't seem to locate one for my 85 B2 4x4 XLS 2.8 with an A4LD.
With that in mind I'm also considering a Holley 350 but my question is will it mount to the intake or is another intake in order and for that matter which one if it needs to be replaced or is there an adaptor plate that is needed?
None of the salvage yards around here seem to have anything so would a motorcraft from a small V8 in a car or truck work? I have all of the conversion parts but I can't seem to come up with the 64-5242 carb listed on the tech pages (maybe under different PN).
Main reason for the conversion is for the ease of maintenance and hopefully better fuel economy as my B2 currently is getting 9.5 to 10 MPG's on a good day (maybe a choke issue too) when it used to get 15 to 17.
I have already installed a switch on the dash to take care of the TCC function for the transmission and also a huge trans cooler w/ an external filter as well.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and if I have forgotten anything that you need to know let me know and I'll try to answer questions along the way, thanks for any help in advance.
I'm also looking for a fuel level sending unit if anybody can come up with a part number that would be way cool too. I think I've looked pretty much everywhere and can't seem to locate one for my 85 B2 4x4 XLS 2.8 with an A4LD.
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