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It's alive!!!!! Well, sort of. It cranks now and the electrical stuff works.
I found a burned up fusible link, so I replaced it with a regular in line fuse. Fusible links suck. I still had no power, so I found a splice a few inches from the old fusible link had failed, it wasn't passing any current through, so I replaced it as well.
Now it all works. Still wouldn't crank though. Took a little digging, but I found the neutral safety switch was boogered up. A good jiggle got it going. Next step is to find a new carb for it. I started going through the carb, and found the throttle shaft wiggles in it's hole, and more importantly, the spring that holds the accelerator pump arm is broken. It'll never be right that way. I could buy a whole new throttle shaft and install bushings in the carb, but I'm hoping to find a decent junkyard carb I can rebuild.
Next step is to install this big pile of parts.....
More is coming, too. The radiator leaks, so that's gotta be taken care of. I can turn the motor by hand several degrees each way without the rotor in the distributor turning, so the timing chain is trash. It's probably one of the old plastic coated ones with the plastic all broken off. Plus it's getting a full tune up....plugs, wires, a new distributor (old one is worn out, the shaft wobbles) air filter, etc. Then once all that's done, it'll finely start and drive, so I can take it down the road and find out what it needs for brakes and such
Re: I bought a new truck......
[Re: loosegoose]
#6978368 08/30/2001:19 PM08/30/2001:19 PM
Got the timing cover off, and the chain was loose as a goose. Like 1 1/2 of play side to side in the chain loose. Also it had skipped a couple teeth, so there was no way it was ever going to run like that.
Just like I suspected, it had the plastic covered cam gear, and the plastic had worn down and some had broken off.
Re: I bought a new truck......
[Re: loosegoose]
#6978780 08/31/2012:07 AM08/31/2012:07 AM
Now going to have to drop the pan. Those plastic shavings will pull up against the screen on the oil pick up tube and cause you to loose oil pressure. Been there done that. Bet if go to the site for the carb and have your numbers can find a match as well.
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Re: I bought a new truck......
[Re: Lugnut]
#6978791 08/31/2012:58 AM08/31/2012:58 AM
Loosegoose - did you figure out the year? The grill is not from older than a1977. Cannot tell from the rest at this distance.
Lug - my new F-350 with power everywhere and everything is more of a truck than I have ever experienced before. The driving experience is like a cross between a Mustang and an army tank. It accelerates faster than an airplane I used to fly. Plus it can masterfully tow, control, and stop a huge load. It is extremely comfortable and very cool looking too.
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Re: I bought a new truck......
[Re: loosegoose]
#6978860 08/31/2007:30 AM08/31/2007:30 AM
Loosegoose - did you figure out the year? The grill is not from older than a1977. Cannot tell from the rest at this distance.
Lug - my new F-350 with power everywhere and everything is more of a truck than I have ever experienced before. The driving experience is like a cross between a Mustang and an army tank. It accelerates faster than an airplane I used to fly. Plus it can masterfully tow, control, and stop a huge load. It is extremely comfortable and very cool looking too.
It's definitely a 77, that somebody has hacked up a little. In 77 it was supposed to have duraspark ignition, but this truck still has points. In the process of making the electrical work, I could all the hacked up wires inside the harness. Why someone felt the need to go back to o points I don't know,but I'm leaving it that way for now.
Re: I bought a new truck......
[Re: Drifter]
#6978907 08/31/2008:32 AM08/31/2008:32 AM
Now going to have to drop the pan. Those plastic shavings will pull up against the screen on the oil pick up tube and cause you to loose oil pressure. Been there done that. Bet if go to the site for the carb and have your numbers can find a match as well.
Already have an oil pan gasket on the way.
Re: I bought a new truck......
[Re: loosegoose]
#6978970 08/31/2009:50 AM08/31/2009:50 AM
In a lot of ways thats a LOT better than the new truck's on the lot. You see a lot of those trucks around Alaska because they are tired of the new trucks breaking down....and not being able to fix them.
Had a 78 F-100 short box -3 on the tree,inline 6-fantastic light truck would go places where 4x4's would get stuck,and would start at 50 below after sitting for a week at the trailhead.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.