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    Bench Seat

    I recently got a set of seat belts for my truck. Does anyone know what the stock configuration was for the middle lap belt? I can’t seem to find any information on it. Is the Female or Male end closer to the drivers side?
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    Front end ticking..

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    Front end ticking..

    I picked up a mechanics stethoscope, and was still really struggling to pin-point the exact location the noise seemed to be coming from. After some more research into different forums of people complaining about noises in small blocks. Someone had commented that it could simple be the serpentine...
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    Front end ticking..

    Well I took off the belt today, and the noise was gone. So it surely has to be something on the serpentine setup. I do believe it may be the AC since the noise seems to be loudest over there. The Pervious owner had put this “93 motor in the truck, with all of the pulleys and so on. So the AC...
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    Front end ticking..

    Great idea, I don’t think I’ll be able to get to it today. But I’ll get it done tomorrow, and will give an updated.
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    Front end ticking..

    Wasn’t the rocker arms. Truck doesn’t make the noise at startup. But once I give it some gas, then let it go back to idle the tick starts again and stays. I look into the AC clutch.
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    Front end ticking..

    My power steering pump doesn’t even have 300 miles on it. So hopefully it didn’t fail already. I just now pulled my valve covers and am tightening up the loose rocker arms. I didn’t originally think it was the rocker arms because the noise doesn’t get faster with higher rpms. However still...
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    Front end ticking..

    Can anyone help me identify what this ticking noise is? It sounds likes it is coming from the serpentine setup, and when it “ticks” the belt seems to wobble. I just replaced the belt tensioner and the idler pulley, thinking it was one of those two. The power steering pump pulley has some play...
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    Dies when put into gear

    Got the truck running again, and into gear. Put on a new edelbrock carb, and the truck now goes into gear! The only possible vacuum issues that I can think that it had may have been the vacuum line that runs to the brake booster. However I believe it was the carb, I checked the vacuum line...
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    Dies when put into gear

    I went ahead and adjusted the timing to 12 degrees ATDC ( or very close) , truck starts up great and ideals fine. It tried to run a bit after I put it in gear, but still dies, even if I am giving it gas. This weekend, I have someone bringing in another carb that I will try and place on the...
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    Dies when put into gear

    I didn’t even think that this could be a timing issue, I will go ahead and get a timing light then.
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    Dies when put into gear

    I can’t put it into drive to mess with the mixtures screws, because once I go to shift it it dies, even if I give it gas. I have let the engine warm up too before trying to go into gear
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    Dies when put into gear

    The tach on it isn’t working as of now, but I have also adjusted the RPM higher and was still getting the same results. For the timing, I am not sure on the degrees of it. I will run to the auto parts store and get one. Could it be the timing? I just set it by going to TDC.
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    Dies when put into gear

    Hello Everyone, I recently got my engine running good at idle since I did both head gaskets. But now the issue is it dies when put into gear. Originally I thought it was the vacuum line that goes from the back of the intake manifold to the transmission. But that seems to be fine. Then I...
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    Intake manifold not fitting flush

    Thank you all for the information! I appreciate it. I will be using RTV to close the gap.
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