DustyFJ
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So it was a busy year for me, got divorced sold my house moved, lot of changes. The 40 is sitting at a friends house right now, over the summer and fall I traded a gun for some work on the truck since I was busy with personal issues.
I bought an electronic ignition kit to get rid of the points that were bad and too far gone to save.
My friend said it did run for a few seconds on the old carb but really rough and really high rpms. The carb I rebuild leaked like crazy. On his advice I gave up and bought one from trollhole.
My friend pulled the head and sent it to rockville ring and pinion to be gone over and have new valve seats pressed in. Cylinder #5 had low compression because of a bad valve seat apparently.
I bought a used intake manifold, the old one leaked like a sieve and was apparently unsaveable. Intake and exhaust manifolds were taken in and cleaned up professionally, I believe they were milled together…If I remember correctly, I had a lot obi my mind at the time.
I'm just waiting for a few parts and It should be ready to go back together and run. I almost sold the truck for next to nothing in the midst of personal stuff but I'm glad I was able to hold on to it.
I'm excited to start driving this thing around!!
So it was a busy year for me, got divorced sold my house moved, lot of changes. The 40 is sitting at a friends house right now, over the summer and fall I traded a gun for some work on the truck since I was busy with personal issues.
I bought an electronic ignition kit to get rid of the points that were bad and too far gone to save.
My friend said it did run for a few seconds on the old carb but really rough and really high rpms. The carb I rebuild leaked like crazy. On his advice I gave up and bought one from trollhole.
My friend pulled the head and sent it to rockville ring and pinion to be gone over and have new valve seats pressed in. Cylinder #5 had low compression because of a bad valve seat apparently.
I bought a used intake manifold, the old one leaked like a sieve and was apparently unsaveable. Intake and exhaust manifolds were taken in and cleaned up professionally, I believe they were milled together…If I remember correctly, I had a lot obi my mind at the time.
I'm just waiting for a few parts and It should be ready to go back together and run. I almost sold the truck for next to nothing in the midst of personal stuff but I'm glad I was able to hold on to it.
I'm excited to start driving this thing around!!