Recent content by mongoose2231

Right, in hindsight u may be right. It just looked so much like my uncle's IMS. Pic is just an internet search. Anyhow, didn't mean to hijack. 🍻

Im pretty sure its a Romanian ARO, haven't seen one since I was a kid!

Holy chit! Is that an IMS? ARO 461?

Got more than 1500 miles on this now. She run great. Got as good as 20mpg, according to my math. I am surprised about that but I'll do rhe test a couple more times. Pulls great in top gear, no more struggling to keep with traffic. Just a treat. Need to make it quieter though, it's loud as hell...

OK, so it turns out that when I tightened the bolt, the dizzy slipped about a degree too advanced. I now have it at about 10 degrees btdc and it runs great with no pinging. I'll drive into the city tomorrow to see how she behaves. Update; Drove it to work and back, 150-mile rt. Drives great...

Changed the cam. Took all of two hours. Drove the truck, pulls hard even at the top. I do have pinging again, slightly though. I may retard it two degrees to 10 btdc to see what that does. These carbed engines are such a treat, it's like figuring out a puzzle. 😆

If I add all this weight on the back, maybe I should keep the cam!

Yeah, I need this to go down the road proper, I dont want to have my foot buried in it just to maintain 75. I'll be switching back to the stock camshaft because I liked how the truck could do 90 if wanted it. Not that 70 isn't the targeted speed for me. But to get to 70 feels like a chore. Gotta...

Trucks beern running real well. I do have a problem, live and learn, as someone once said. I DO NOT like my new cam! I can barely scrape 75mph if that, on a flat surface. I knew it was a low end torque profile, but they say it pulls to 6k rpm. This is on fact an offroad performance cam, and I...

And yes, I think she was too lean. Was running 140/ 190.

Right, good point made above. In hindsight I don't remember getting any better mpg with the stock carb. I am going to look into the AFR and see about that. Now, I just finished rejetting, went to 145 mains and 180 air correctors. Got the timing back to 12 degrees, and runs great. No pinging...

I have 140 main jets, I think the carb had 155s initially. It seemed awfully rich. I could smell the darn thing.. I could go back up in size though, to see what happens, but it's only getting, or was getting 16mpg on a good day. That is an indication of too much fuel for this little 4 cylinder...

Update. I have been driving the ol' gal and realized I had a bit of pinging/ detonation. She was timed at 12 degrees btdc. Power was also, meh. I backed it out to 10 degrees. There was still a bit of detonation. Backed it out some more, to 8 degrees and I could faintly hear pinging in 4th and...

Ok, here is what i did when my EDIC showed the same symptoms. Basically wanting to shut off, then runing again and so on. I knew the edic could be problematic, so I did what I thought was the best thing. I opened the darn thing up. The gear side, not the motor side. Turns out that the excessive...

Video here.