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  1. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    Well the speedometer is fixed - sort of. Can any of you sharp eye mechanics spot the problem? I'm thinking this was routed in a way that it was laying on the exhaust. It should be fine now but I'll be keeping an eye on it. Replacing the cable wasn't any problem but it was a little finicky to...
  2. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    Geeze people. I get it, you like the Quadrajet. You hate the Edelbrock. :hahano: Please, let it go. I promise to rebuild the Quadrajet when I've ironed out all my other problems. ;) For now, I'll take what works. This sounds very plausible. I know the geometry was slightly different and...
  3. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    On this topic - someone in my area was selling two transfer cases from an old Blazer, 1 good and 1 for parts for $100. Nailed it. I know enough to be dangerous. But I've figured out more complicated things and thanks to YouTube, I can learn the wrong way to fix most anything. :hahano: I just...
  4. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    Finally took it for another drive! So Second drive - way better than the first! I actually made it to the gas station and got gas. AND new problem list. * I was thinking my temp gauge wasn't working - It eventually did start working when I turned the car off. I need to inspect my thermostat...
  5. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    OK - I found this cheapo bracket on Amazon. It needed a tiny bit of modification but seems to work ok. I may end up making a non-adjustable version based on this design. I have two concerns. 1) I guess I didn't notice with the stock bracket (because the geometry appears similar) is how tweaked...
  6. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    I see what you're saying. I liked it being like stock and tucked under the air-cleaner. Back to the drawing board.
  7. Chris64

    Should the windshield wipers park on a 1974?

    I finally got around to adding wiper blades so I could try out the wipers. They seem to work but the speed didn't really change much from slow to fast. Also when I turn them off they just stop wherever I turned them off. Are they supposed to park? Is there an intermittent? I'm afraid to even...
  8. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    My latest change. I didn't like the spring going forward and I also didn't like that I didn't have redundancy on the spring. I made a little bracket that has a little ear on it to keep it from rotating up. This puts the springs in a mostly stock position. It doesn't touch anything or rub on...
  9. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    Is that what that tank is? OK - so I'm fine to just connect it to an open vacuum line on the carb, right?
  10. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    Update: I machined a little tube to bypass the fuel tank selector. I think the driver (default) is nearly empty so I think it's draining the fuel line or something like that - OR maybe the switch itself has a leak. Either way, that seemed to do the trick for getting my fuel line to actually draw...
  11. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    I'm really having no luck with this. After we got it running last week, now it's no longer primed. To make matters even more strange it doesn't seem like it's even trying to draw fuel. Almost the opposite. I will go through about half a cup of gas putting a little in the intake. It will start up...
  12. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    Help. I'm trying to understand what this line here does. It appears to go down the the little reservoir on the firewall radiator support where it then goes down to a hardline that goes all the way back to the gas tanks and hits a T-junction to each tank. The T is next to the fuel tank switch...
  13. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    Weekend Update: I switched out the fuel pump. I thought it went well but but then I got nothing out it (it was not primed). My dad came over and brought his knowledge of carbs with him. We started pouring a little gas in to the carb to get it to fire up and after 4 or 5 stalls it started drawing...
  14. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    Those mystery bolt holes don't seem to exist on other frames I see. Here's a pretty clean frame - that big hole is the big bolt on mine (he removed one of his tanks apparently). I wonder what they had there. I think they had a camper on this so maybe one of those brackets it ties down to. I'll...
  15. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    Just to branch off another question - while inspecting the fuel lines - the left/right tank switching mechanism is higher than my current fuel level (about mid tank height but I only have about 5 gallons of gas on the right tank) - I did get a dribble of gas out of the tank (the other tank is...
  16. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    Good tips. I did watch videos on that holder bolt thing - which I think I do have. Which is of course behind the hard fuel line. Before I even tried to find TDC, I unplugged the hose going into the fuel pump. It appears to be higher than my current gas level and nothing came out. Since this...
  17. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    I just picked up a new pump - so I have no doubt it will be the fuel sock on the pickup! :hahano: I can't even imagine what that will take to fix - remove the bed? fun. I will ignore the lobe comment entirely.
  18. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    I believe the pump is a 2 port (I don't see a third). I'm not sure if it's worth fixing (or fixable) or just replacing - the price range on the parts seem pretty huge. ($30-$200). I got a new air cleaner just because the stock one looks a little beat and the filter, while clean, is old and...
  19. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    According to a random calculator I found online (that I'm probably using wrong), a 3/8 hose at 4psi between 3-6 feet in length would fill about 2.5 gallons per min. Does that sound right? That sounds like a LOT of fuel.
  20. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    No :hahano: The lid of a small water bottle - like the little thimble amount of fuel. I'm seeing it should generally be 4-6psi but I'm not sure what that looks like in "flow."
  21. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    Update (not that anyone was asking)... Fuel seems to be the problem. I removed the fuel line going into the carb (still the quad, also the line was bone dry) and put the line into an empty clear bottle I could see while I was turning it over. Nothing came out. I couldn't imagine I was out of...
  22. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    OK - so as usual, nothing goes as planned. I managed to get to all the plugs, which was insanely difficult and even more difficult to screw in the compression gauge. They all read about 135. Does that sound right? One read a little lower but I simply couldn't tighten the gauge properly so I'm...
  23. Chris64

    First real drive! Not tragic but not good. I think I need carb advice.

    So if I have a non-mod quad - is that a bad thing? OK - while looking around for black Friday deals I found an auto part store near me that is going out of business (all sales final) but they had really good prices on a bunch of new stuff. I ended up getting an Edelbrock AVS2 650, air cleaner...
  24. Chris64

    Electronic Shift NP203/NP205 Doubler

    Dumb person question: What's an np203/np205 doubler?
  25. Chris64

    Not good at ac I need help

    I haven't even attempted to get my AC working yet. All the controls are frozen. BUT, I'm curious as a last resort if I went this route - does it work with the standard GM controls or does it have a new controller?

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