1low4x4
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- Truck Year
- 1965
- Truck Model
- C10
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- 283
Took this video while getting gas. Going to get a vacuum gauge this week and fool with those mixture screws.
Has bad vapor lock. Drove it like 80 miles today, and at one point coming down from 70 mph to a stoplight, it quit and I let it sit for a while, poured ice water on the fuel pump and Line, and then remembered you’re supposed to floor it when you crank it to get the vapor out and that worked, then it didn’t act up again.
Drove it 70 and 75 miles an hour for extensive periods of time and the temperature gauge never moved, that new radiator did the trick. One weird thing, and it may just be the old gauge, but the oil pressure would start out at like 50 or more, and then over the course of 10 or 15 minutes of driving highway speeds it would drop down to like 35.
I shortened the cable on the Manual choke and it’s much easier to push in and out now. I set it with the fast idle so that when you engage the choke, there’s like 3/16 of opening between the blade. It still doesn’t really want to run so it can warm up. I guess I need to adjust it again. Or maybe I’m not really sure on how to engage the fast idle. Someone told me close the choke, and then hit the gas once and that sets it. I didn’t do that this morning, I just closed the choke and cranked it. Then I basically had to read the engine for a while and then take off while it was still cold just so it would run.
Although the RPM at idle is not surging anymore, I’m still not 100% convinced that I don’t have a vacuum leak. I need to spray more carb cleaner around it next time it’s running.
I was really careful to hand wash all surfaces inside the cab, but while me and my son were riding today, we kept getting tons of dirt and rust particles all over us and in our eyes at highway speeds. I think it’s definitely the kick panel vents. I need to take those vents out and do some cleaning Because it’s so bad that when I get home, I have to use a leaf blower to blow the cab out.
My son and I took it to church today, they have the biggest and most well-known pumpkin patch in the area, and when I was leaving, they called me and asked me if they could use my truck as a prop with hay in the back like they have had several years prior. At first, I said, yes, but the more I got to thinking about it, do I really want it sitting on the side of the highway, day and night for the next month unattended? And do I really want random kids and or grown men opening the hood? Not really. So I had to politely decline. It’s insured for 25,000 through Haggerty, but I still don’t want it to sit in a church parking lot while I could be working on it and driving it for the next several weeks.
Has bad vapor lock. Drove it like 80 miles today, and at one point coming down from 70 mph to a stoplight, it quit and I let it sit for a while, poured ice water on the fuel pump and Line, and then remembered you’re supposed to floor it when you crank it to get the vapor out and that worked, then it didn’t act up again.
Drove it 70 and 75 miles an hour for extensive periods of time and the temperature gauge never moved, that new radiator did the trick. One weird thing, and it may just be the old gauge, but the oil pressure would start out at like 50 or more, and then over the course of 10 or 15 minutes of driving highway speeds it would drop down to like 35.
I shortened the cable on the Manual choke and it’s much easier to push in and out now. I set it with the fast idle so that when you engage the choke, there’s like 3/16 of opening between the blade. It still doesn’t really want to run so it can warm up. I guess I need to adjust it again. Or maybe I’m not really sure on how to engage the fast idle. Someone told me close the choke, and then hit the gas once and that sets it. I didn’t do that this morning, I just closed the choke and cranked it. Then I basically had to read the engine for a while and then take off while it was still cold just so it would run.
Although the RPM at idle is not surging anymore, I’m still not 100% convinced that I don’t have a vacuum leak. I need to spray more carb cleaner around it next time it’s running.
I was really careful to hand wash all surfaces inside the cab, but while me and my son were riding today, we kept getting tons of dirt and rust particles all over us and in our eyes at highway speeds. I think it’s definitely the kick panel vents. I need to take those vents out and do some cleaning Because it’s so bad that when I get home, I have to use a leaf blower to blow the cab out.
My son and I took it to church today, they have the biggest and most well-known pumpkin patch in the area, and when I was leaving, they called me and asked me if they could use my truck as a prop with hay in the back like they have had several years prior. At first, I said, yes, but the more I got to thinking about it, do I really want it sitting on the side of the highway, day and night for the next month unattended? And do I really want random kids and or grown men opening the hood? Not really. So I had to politely decline. It’s insured for 25,000 through Haggerty, but I still don’t want it to sit in a church parking lot while I could be working on it and driving it for the next several weeks.
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