360 upgrades 76 f150

[DNFXDLI]

You shouldn't have points...should be electronic

 

[tjcustomranger]

It is electric. I had points on my last truck.

 

[DNFXDLI]

I believe you mentioned in an earlier thread that your distributor was frozen....did you get that figured out?

After seeing the nice color of oil in your other post...going through all the things you can go through might be a cheap good idea.

 

[tjcustomranger]

It was in an old truck the dizzy was a little dirty and I cleans it up the plugs are all hooked up. The only other things I can do now without tearing it down is the air filter and a carb kit then tune it up. All the electrical components have been replaced other than the voltage regulator and alternator but the battery holds a charge for a day or two. I need to change the oil pan gasket so maybe ill tear that out and clean up the crank shaft and oil pump before I put it back on

 

[tjcustomranger]

uploaded some pictures of it to my profile heres a couple if anybody was curious

 

[tjcustomranger]

theres nothing wrong here, right?..

i don't know how i missed the plug wire until earlier today. that air filter is horrible too

 

[Workin' Rig]

Other then the plug wire...no. But being down one cylinder shouldnt make *that* much difference.

 

[tjcustomranger]

itdidn't make a difference. called napa and they said the carb kits for my carb are obsolete they can't even special order them anymore. so i either take a chance with ebay or i go buy a holley carb or something to throw on the old girl. i'm gonna tru cleaning the carb out in a couple hours hope that helps she barely wants to stay running right now.

 

[tjcustomranger]

any 2 bbl carb suggestions?

 

[tjcustomranger]

found a kit on a website for 25$ along with everything else i would need

 

[Workin' Rig]

I got mine from o reiley...im guessing napa just didnt wanna dig...

 

[tjcustomranger]

Probably not I found a few online. Tire the top of the carb off and it looked really clean and nice then before I did I ran carb cleaner through the top of the carb and sprayed some down the fuel line that helped for 20 minutes then took the screws out an 1/8th turn and it seems to be doing a lot better I think my timing and stuff might be out of adjustment

 

[tjcustomranger]

The tag on the rear axle says 3.79

 

[DNFXDLI]

3.70 maybe...no 3.79.

 

[tjcustomranger]

maybe the last number was hard to see

 

[DNFXDLI]

maybe the last number was hard to see

That would be my guess

 

[tjcustomranger]

my timing is set to 6 on my truck. so i guess thats not really the problem unless it needs to be set higher or lower. it keeps wanting to die on me and when you give it gas to save it it spurts out of the carb and shuts off.
i have gone threw everything now other than the vacuum lines. any suggestions now?

 

[DNFXDLI]

If you gas puking out the carb, then I'm guessing a carb issue...needle/seat perhaps...shooting a bunch of cleaner through the butterflies doesn't do much....maybe takes off some varnish on the venturis...but not much else.

 

[tjcustomranger]

what do i do if thats the case.

 

[DNFXDLI]

what do i do if thats the case.

Complete rebuild....not really that complicated...you need some toluene or xylene as a cleaner and a rebuild kit....give yourself 2-3 hours....lots of q-tips and some drying air.