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    Running Rich?

    @75gmck25: Thanks for your input. I fully closed the choke plate by hand yesterday and the engine stalled almost immediately, so I think we're covered on the vacuum leak. But that didn't stop me from spending time on youtube figuring out how to make a smoke generator to chase down a vacuum...
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    Running Rich?

    Ok - tried to quickly check timing and I think it is set at 4* BTC, and I think the mark the shop made on the harmonic balancer aligns with the stock mark (an etched line across the balancer.) My problem seems to be that the pointer on the block pretty much covers the mark and is hard to see...
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    Running Rich?

    It has been cold enough here to keep me from wanting to work on the truck for a bit, but I did install a fuel pressure regulator and set it to ~5.5 psi. Doesn't seem to have helped much, but I haven't done an actual check. The truck is running cleaner and the exhaust smells better though. I...
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    Running Rich?

    I think it's mechanical secondary. There's no egr or cruise control hooked up. Heater/AC is after market and the vacuum ports were plugged. I'm going to have to track down any other possible leaks
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    Running Rich?

    Thanks. Fuel pressure or wonky timing have been my suspected culprits. Just trying to do one change at a time so I can see the effects.
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    Yesterday was just some simple stuff to make me feel better: Pulled the dash off to fix crackly speakers. I initially though it was bad polarity but Google thought it would be loose speakers. Fix is the same either way - get to the speaker and check polarity and tightness (polarity for the...
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    Running Rich?

    It got cold and I got impatient, so I gave a trusted mechanic my truck and a list of things to do, including timing setting the idle. He said some things that were odd: First, he said that the timing mark on the harmonic balance was way off - like 50 degrees off so he estimated where TDC was...
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    brake lights no worky!!

    Do you still have the old flasher? If you put it back in does the problem revert? You might have a bad new flasher [And its for that reason that I don't throw anything away until the job is successfully complete.]
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    That's what I'm thinking. I'll investigate when I have more time / desire, but right now the solution seems to be "don't do that"
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    Running Rich?

    Slow progress: I tried timing the engine, and I could not see the timing mark at all. Tried again today and never saw a timing mark - I started to suspect that (1) I had no idea what the timing mark looked like (I didn't - I expected a notch) or (2) there was no timing mark. Spent a lot of...
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    A while ago, I crossed some wires when reconnecting cables to the battery (starter cable is black with red ends - lots of nice sparks hooking that up wrong). Messed up the alternator and I could have sworn that I heard an electrical "snap" from it. Sent it to Mechman for repair, which they did...
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    Post a pic of your first car or restoration!

    First car was a 53 Mercury with a flat head V8 and 3 on the tree. Great car - got me across the country in the winter but then threw a rod on the way to work. Next was ac 54 country squire wagon. I bought someone else's project but was too young and distracted to finish it. I miss this one the...
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    Metal Seat Belt Buckle

    I'm thinking you got hit worse by the same storm we got - any luck on the buckle?
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    Metal Seat Belt Buckle

    The webbed belt is 12.25 inches from end to end
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    Metal Seat Belt Buckle

    I'm not home right now, but it is a little over a foot. Will measure and let you know later
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    Metal Seat Belt Buckle

    @AuroraGirl: Here's exactly what I need, don't care about the webbing color: If you have one of these in whatever color, DM me and we can work out the details The buckle in your picture of the 80 Silverado won't work for me. The plastic buckle is too small
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    Metal Seat Belt Buckle

    Thanks for the help identifying exactly what I need, but that circles me back: Does anyone have one for sale?
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    Recommendations For Original/After Market Parts Companies

    I can't really tell you which place is better, but I will tell you to order from one place and not mix it up. I got a dash pad from one place and then realized I needed the trim and got that from somewhere else and a couple of stray pieces from a third place. All nice quality, but nothing...
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    What have you done to your square lately??

    Technically this was yesterday and today: Put the power steering spacers on the correct side of the frame rail so that I could get the fender liner in and then put the splash shields on. Only took two trips to the hardware store and one trip to Advance Auto. I also steam cleaned my seat belts...
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    Metal Seat Belt Buckle

    @AuroraGirl: Sorry - I knew a picture would be better but didn't take one first I need the the entire female side - metal buckle with the webbing, preferably in brown. So little of the webbing will show through that the color won't matter much. @FireTruck1984: I saw similar vendors selling...
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    Metal Seat Belt Buckle

    I need one seat belt buckle for an '84 K10. Brown is preferable, but not much of this will show so it doesn't really matter what color it is. I have good belts but the button on this buckle feels like the spring is gone. FWIW, the plastic covered buckles are too narrow to accept the metal...
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    Can't Get Driver's Inner Fender Back In

    Found the problem: put the spacers for the power steering pump on the wrong side when I changed the box. I'll swap them around tomorrow if the weather is good
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    Running Rich?

    Last tank was down to 7.6 again but there was a lot of local driving and a breakdown so that might have had an affect. Breakdown was from a loose power feed into the distributor which I have fixed along with replacing the cap and rotor When I re-did the plug wires, I started from scratch...
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    Frustrated 87 GMC owner!

    Electrical gremlins are tough. I have a carb'ed 350 with HEI ignition and it has cut out on my twice with a sudden stumble and die like it ran out of fuel quickly. Nice strong crank but no spark. Turns out it was the battery connector to the distributor that was very loose - it fell off when...
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    Eastwood Roll-On Primer

    Never used it, but I did look into rolling on rustoleum for another project. You can get it to look OK but not great. I think the roll on products are really for people without access to a good compressor because the work involved seems to be greater than a spray job. FYI - hunt around...

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