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- Dec 20, 2010
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- 1984
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- Manual
Hi Folks.
Not that anyone will remember, but I logged in about a hundred years ago with a quirky fuel issue. It was caused by three things. First, the carb should have been tended to when the new long block was installed and it wasn't. I replaced the carb with stock cause I hadn't read about the Duraspark etc. upgrade so I'll just live with that on my conscience. Second the freezing up was due to two faults. First, the yahoo that had the truck before me took all the knockouts out of the breather pan. That's five one inch holes to let the cold air in. Second mistake was to take the thermostat out and not replace it with another. I wondered why the engine never got very hot!? Then and Third in the list of fuel faults was this: When we got the truck the tank was rusted out and we replaced it. My Ford guy has large hands and couldn't get the float sender/pickup assembly back into the hole in the tank as I'm guessing you're supposed to and that means taking the float bulb out of its clip and inserting the pickup/sender assembly just into the hole and then re-installing the bulb. What my Ford guy did was push the "Sock" or pre-filter basket up on the pickup tube so it would all go back into the hole in the tank together. BAD IDEA! The basket will go on up the tube all right, and when it does the inner wall of the basket with the slots in it will be nearly blocked from access to the fuel inflow, hence the starving out under hard acceleration, like say going into a headwind. I substituted a Holley high performance electric fuel pump just to see if I was right about the Sock and sure enough it pumped bubbles, lots of bubbles. So there you go, as my mentor, the repairman used to tell me, a problem will almost always take three steps to correct, at least. My little truck runs real good. Now I've got a brake job to do.
ewwebb
Not that anyone will remember, but I logged in about a hundred years ago with a quirky fuel issue. It was caused by three things. First, the carb should have been tended to when the new long block was installed and it wasn't. I replaced the carb with stock cause I hadn't read about the Duraspark etc. upgrade so I'll just live with that on my conscience. Second the freezing up was due to two faults. First, the yahoo that had the truck before me took all the knockouts out of the breather pan. That's five one inch holes to let the cold air in. Second mistake was to take the thermostat out and not replace it with another. I wondered why the engine never got very hot!? Then and Third in the list of fuel faults was this: When we got the truck the tank was rusted out and we replaced it. My Ford guy has large hands and couldn't get the float sender/pickup assembly back into the hole in the tank as I'm guessing you're supposed to and that means taking the float bulb out of its clip and inserting the pickup/sender assembly just into the hole and then re-installing the bulb. What my Ford guy did was push the "Sock" or pre-filter basket up on the pickup tube so it would all go back into the hole in the tank together. BAD IDEA! The basket will go on up the tube all right, and when it does the inner wall of the basket with the slots in it will be nearly blocked from access to the fuel inflow, hence the starving out under hard acceleration, like say going into a headwind. I substituted a Holley high performance electric fuel pump just to see if I was right about the Sock and sure enough it pumped bubbles, lots of bubbles. So there you go, as my mentor, the repairman used to tell me, a problem will almost always take three steps to correct, at least. My little truck runs real good. Now I've got a brake job to do.
ewwebb
