Recent content by KRGfab

Still for sale? Where in central Texas? I’m in San Angelo.

I too rescued a basket case 72. Spent a lot of time fixing panels and floors on it, ended up finding a frame/tub with minimal rust for a good price as a donor. Now I get to do a frame-off, lol. Your thread has been fun to watch and I’m excited to see the final product.

Yes, I also pulled all the cable off and reattached it to the drum opposite of how it was originally installed, so it would feed from the bottom, and feed out on the control would still be out.

Badlands 9000 winch and the HF winch plate, welded in between the frame rails, respooled the winch to run underneath the drum.

Seat one side on the clips, line up the other side and tap it on with a rubber Mallett.

Sounds like the drums might be too tight. Do the wheels/hubs feel hot after a drive?

Self adhesive rubber strips.

The carb in my '72 has two #2 venturis in it. Think its fairly common, as most of the how-to rebuild threads have also had matching venturis.

Fixed! That third adjustment screw inline with the other two, but hidden behind everything was the answer. I believe it's the adjustment for the butterfly valve and was turned too far in, making the idle adjustment screw useless. Backed that out about a half turn and now the idle adjust screw is...

May have found the answer, after some thorough head scratching and closer examination and comparison with exploded view diagrams. It appears there is a third "throttle adjustment screw/ idle adjustment screw" as Haynes likes to call it, tucked way behind everything. Hoping that is what is...

I'm kinda leaning to that same direction now too. Problem is finding a good reference, I'll do some digging and see what I can find. Thanks everybody for the help so far!

I have messed with the mixture screw a little bit, set it to the recommended 1 1/4 turns, seems to be happy, turn it in more start to get pre-detonation pinging, turning it out seems to cause some hesitation under heavy acceleration. Really confused by this one, shouldn't be this hard.

Pulled the plugs, turned engine over by hand and found the BB under a layer of grime. Cleaned it and put some white paint on it. Timing is set properly. Still idling around 1000.

That's the thing, I've backed the idle setting screw all the way to the point its not contacting the linkage and it still sits around 1000-1200. I've also disconnected the throttle cable to make sure it wasn't too tight with the same result. If I push on the linkage, I can get it to drop, but...

1972 FJ40, original F engine and carb. Trying to get the idle down to the specified 650 RPM and vacuum to 16.5. Right now I'm currently idling around 1000 and pulling between 19-20 vacuum. I've gone through and tried adjusting the idle per my Haynes manual (i know, not the best source of info...