36 Ford truck on Ranger

[smallfoot]

Sounds like you're stalking down the gremlins!

 

[MercuryMac]

A&W was calling me in, so I went. This was a good long test run. The truck has the right power, but doesn't idle well at stop lights and burns too much gas yet.

 

[Torchie]

Keep at it Mac.
I miss having a nearby A and W.
Torchie

 

[MercuryMac]

Smallfoot used the word 'gremlins', as in plural. Well, I fixed two carburetor problems the other day and today I found another on a different carb. The red arrow points to the top of the gismo that allows the gas to go into the venturi. Right where the red arrow points is an opening to stop the gas from syphoning out of the bowl when its not needed. If that hole is plugged off, gas will continue to syphon until the bowl is empty. When I took the top off this carb the bowl was bone dry. I've been burning fuel just for fun, ------ and to make the oil companies rich.

 

[DozerII]

you mean richer

 

[Old Iron]

Workin out the bugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MercuryMac]

Dang Dozer, I thought I was single-handedly making the oil companies rich, and you're telling me that some of you guys are also helping make them even richer. Well, I'll be.....

 

[DozerII]

Dang Dozer, I thought I was single-handedly making the oil companies rich, and you're telling me that some of you guys are also helping make them even richer. Well, I'll be.....

Remember I have 440

 

[MercuryMac]

Over the last couple of years I've been having my grief getting this truck tuned up properly. I resorted to throwing wheelbarrows full of money at it,------- to no avail. Any how, my expensive new plug wires didn't seem to be working right. The number one wire was leaking spark out everywhere except across the sparkplug electrodes under compression. I put an old steel wire on and that helped a lot. So here is a new replacement wire that I made up because the old steel one looks out of place on there.

 

[MercuryMac]

This part of the build thread is, ----- building character.
Here I am, Granddad, teaching my granddaughter how to drive a 'standard transmission' hot rod.
It went well.

 

[bob w]

That's the best part of the build, Mac.[cl

 

[Skip]

Better hide the keys.

Seriously, good on you for being a good grandpa and sharing your toys and your knowledge. [cl

 

[soltz]

[cl Can’t wait for mine to get to 15 [cl
Just 5 to go

 

[MercuryMac]

Thanks Guys.
Soltz, I couldn't wait either, she's only 13.

 

[Old Iron]

Right on
Best to get them started out young, the right way and on a standard tranny

 

[MercuryMac]

For a while now I've been having accelerating problems so I thought my accelerator pump piston was not working or no gas was getting into the chamber. And then, the last time I was in town the truck flooded twice on me. This time I thought there must be something stuck in the float valve. Today, I took the carb apart [for the umpteenth time] and cleaned it out. [Side note here, those really cool see through red gas lines are impossible to get off, so you have to figure out a way to take the carb apart while it's still plugged in].
The float valve had some weird stuff in it, though not much. The accelerator pump seemed to be working alright so I looked around. The progressive linkage on the right hand side of the carbs was gunked up and jamming so I was probably opening up the two secondaries every time I got into the next gear and wanted to get going. That would give my poor little motor a lot of air and not enough gasoline. Anyhow, the test-drive went well.

 

[Couper]

This part of the build thread is, ----- building character.
Here I am, Granddad, teaching my granddaughter how to drive a 'standard transmission' hot rod.
It went well.

Nice Merc! She'll never forget those times! I hope I'm still around to teach the little guy how to drive stick....

 

[Torchie]

Keep at it Mac. You will get the bugs out.
Both of my daughters first cars were sticks.
I taught them both how to drive them.
During one of our lessons my youngest ( who just got married) had a melt down.
As I remember, her words were....” what kind of a fathers gets his daughter a sports car with a stick shift for their first Car.”
Torchie

 

[Old Iron]

 

[I-R-POPS]

This part of the build thread is, ----- building character.
Here I am, Granddad, teaching my granddaughter how to drive a 'standard transmission' hot rod.
It went well.

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That right there is the best part of life!!!