This really sucked

[Willowbilly3]

Very litterally, lol.
I got my 300-6 to bark and took it to the muffler shop. I knew it had a bad vac leak and had to heel and toe it to keep it running to get home. I pulled the carb back off and found this.

I am running the old Ford spacer for carb heat, notice the area at the center rear.
So I dig through my junk and find this. I can't believe I still have it, it was from my 62 Sunliner I traded away 6-7 years ago.

Now I have that fixed, some lunch in me and I am going to adjust the fast idle and go for a drive.

 

[hotrod preacher]

Deja Vue

man i had that same problem with an old 390 once!! talk about a drastic change in the whole vehicle after getting it sealed off!
glad to hear ya got it goin...now where's the video?

did i notice the late model split exhaust manifolds on that? what type of pipes did you run?..and mufflers?

 

[earthman]

I like how you include us in what goes on in your world HB.Wish more here would do that, including me. Maybe when i get my camera replaced. So what did you decide about the opportunity in Texas?

 

[Willowbilly3]

Texas is kind of on hold, gardening season coming and already got baby chicks ordered, important stuff you know. Plus my daughter wants to come here for the summer, maybe mover here later on.

Yes I have the efi manifolds and that is quite a saga on the pipes. I ended up having the local muffler shop make them and tie into the old dual 351 stock system. I tried to find the stock pipes but no junkyards had them. No one sells that size of flange, could not find the right one at the parts stores. The only way to buy them new was to get the whole thing with the precat and all. I had one stub and robbed another one off a 351. It ended up having too big of center hole so I made it work by grafting the center hole from a different flange. I found out later on Fordsix that Walker sells a conversion pipe so you can run a single exhaust. Well, it's not pretty but I have exhaust and it's real quiet. I hope to get rid of the stock 3 way cat and muffler soon, but I will keep it pretty quiet. I am not fond of the sound 6 bangers make with loud pipes.

 

[Sam_Fear]

I ran into the same kinda problem with the pipes. At one point, I had a Sunday night situation that got solved in desperation involving a piece of galvanized water pipe and fitting - not pretty.

Next chance I just welded some pipe together to 'make it work' and stuffed a Smithy on. Crap work for a crap truck, but actually sounds good. I got a spare Smithy, suppose I should go back and split them.

 

[Carlos Murphy]

Drive

So, Billy, how was your drive ???

 

[Willowbilly3]

The truck drives out great but I still don't have a speedo or gas guage. I love the big ZF 5 speed and 4.10s, nice combo for the 300.
Also the 90s cabs suck compared to the old 69 crewcab I sold and the ride is pretty rough. I am looking at a 48 F3 and thinking I might slide this drivetrain into something like that.

 

[ANNAMEL]

planning on using a GPS for the speedo when i get to that point.

 

[railroad]

I don't see the new spacer curing your problem. The square block out the rear still allows a leak if you follow the maze to the notches cut next to the butterfly holes. I did not look at your location, but if you are not in the dreaded north, I would buy a 1/2" solid spacer and replace gapped ones.

 

[Willowbilly3]

I don't see the new spacer curing your problem. The square block out the rear still allows a leak if you follow the maze to the notches cut next to the butterfly holes. I did not look at your location, but if you are not in the dreaded north, I would buy a 1/2" solid spacer and replace gapped ones.

The thin steel spacer does cover the big protruding opening in that vacuum chamber on the main spacer. You have to use both together like Ford did.
We do get winter in western S.D. and the 300 needs the carb heat. I don't have the original heated intake with the efi exhaust and I also have no thermal air cleaner plumbing.