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OK I may be exaggerating a bit, it's a solid truck. Title says 1975, rectangular headlights tell me newer doghouse. That may be it, hard to say. Gas cap is on cab, so assuming 1975ish for most of it.
Anyway, I'm curious what the 390 (seller told me 390) or 360 or 352 etc requires in order to run. The truck ran ok until a few months ago when the gas I poured down the carb caught fire due to backfire. Normally it would fire up and then idle ok after a minute or so of feathering.. but then the fire happened and I got p'd off enough to put the fire out and just leave it. Some hoses charred, etc. Some hoses were already capped, but the spark advance hose is intact. Front of carb gasket is leaking, I can replace that. Might have to pull the hood just to see the carb numbers.. it's a 2bbl, and that's about all I know. Cab has no placards and from experience the engine could be anything from 332 352 360 or the 390. It's very torquey and ran great after couple minutes of warmup. Just curious what these old motors need to run. Apparently it was assembled before anyone heard of emissions standards. This truck does about a mile or two a year around the farm, but I could really use just the few hundred feet I'm asking of it.
For the chevy haters: the reason I went to fire it up is to load a seized 350 sb chevy motor into my scrap truck. Apparently no one wants to throw me a $100 for the darn 4 bolt (complete) block.
to summarize: spark squeeze blast boom. What else do I need? Thanks for reading!
Anyway, I'm curious what the 390 (seller told me 390) or 360 or 352 etc requires in order to run. The truck ran ok until a few months ago when the gas I poured down the carb caught fire due to backfire. Normally it would fire up and then idle ok after a minute or so of feathering.. but then the fire happened and I got p'd off enough to put the fire out and just leave it. Some hoses charred, etc. Some hoses were already capped, but the spark advance hose is intact. Front of carb gasket is leaking, I can replace that. Might have to pull the hood just to see the carb numbers.. it's a 2bbl, and that's about all I know. Cab has no placards and from experience the engine could be anything from 332 352 360 or the 390. It's very torquey and ran great after couple minutes of warmup. Just curious what these old motors need to run. Apparently it was assembled before anyone heard of emissions standards. This truck does about a mile or two a year around the farm, but I could really use just the few hundred feet I'm asking of it.
For the chevy haters: the reason I went to fire it up is to load a seized 350 sb chevy motor into my scrap truck. Apparently no one wants to throw me a $100 for the darn 4 bolt (complete) block.
to summarize: spark squeeze blast boom. What else do I need? Thanks for reading!