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  1. Ellie Niner

    Where to buy stock mechanical fuel pump that isn't trash?

    Thanks for the information, y'all. Between me being a bonehead and it being so many years since I last replaced the fuel pump, I'm glad I didn't trust my memory alone. It actually is a 3 port. After wading through listings and descriptions and pictures on various sites for 3-4 hours, I finally...
  2. Ellie Niner

    Where to buy stock mechanical fuel pump that isn't trash?

    It's a 1986 with a Federal emissions (LE9) 305. Two port.
  3. Ellie Niner

    Where to buy stock mechanical fuel pump that isn't trash?

    I haven't checked in here for quite awhile... life has kinda been chucking curveballs at me, and time flies by. The mechanical fuel pump I bought to replace my truck's original one back around 2002, is slowly dying and will probably pack up at an inopportune time if I keep putting off finding...
  4. Ellie Niner

    Adding 81-82 bumper fog lights

    I'm kind of late to this, but wanted to mention that it doesn't look like you've got anything that's going to perform very well for normal, on-road driving @Slooptin. I know a lot of people do fog lights because they look cool... but a fog lamp beam pattern is mainly for crawling along at...
  5. Ellie Niner

    Cargo Light Switch

    The cargo light harness plugs into the dome light harness at the base of the C-pillar, then runs up separately from the dome light. The two harnesses usually take the same general path, but can move around separately from each other. You should be able to fish around in the cargo light switch...
  6. Ellie Niner

    1988 Chevy/Chevrolet Suburban C10/K10/V10 Square Body - - $7,500 (Tucson)

    I've always kinda wanted a ~1983-91 Suburban, but never took the plunge... and they're still pretty affordable. I just don't have a need for that much passenger hauling ability at this point, but I still *want* it! One thing that blows my mind a little is how we've somehow gotten to a point, 30...
  7. Ellie Niner

    Towing with a 305 V8?

    Sorry for dropping off on you there... I used a hydraulic press to apply pressure, then took a hammer and tapped around the hydraulic ram to help persuade the metal back into place. I used sockets and various pieces of metal between the ram and the carburetor top, and drifts hacked out of a...
  8. Ellie Niner

    Towing with a 305 V8?

    I ain't the requested expert, but about the only thing I can think of is that there's a band that's applied in 2nd and 4th gear that can slip under heavy torque loads. They make a band with more surface area and a larger servo that applies more clamping force. It was the 3-4 clutches that would...
  9. Ellie Niner

    Towing with a 305 V8?

    The Q-jets with that dual displacement accelerator pump solenoid tend to warp badly in the area between the carb-to-manifold bolt, going around the front of the solenoid where the air horn casting is really thin. It's right where you have the schmoo smeared; the metal aways bows up there...
  10. Ellie Niner

    Towing with a 305 V8?

    @Velder - Check your SPID (the label inside the glove box); it will tell you what you've got for a transmission and final drive. Most of the mid 1980's "1/2 ton" trucks had stupid tall gearing by default... Usually a 700R4 and 2.73 for 2wd, and 3.08 in the 4wd. What will 4.10's behind a 700R4 do...
  11. Ellie Niner

    08 Cobalt

    I don't know if I should jump in here... but I can see some validity in both y'alls sentiments. I tend to use larger suppliers and some local stores for parts, as well as buying off eBay (mostly NOS and good used). I have done Rock Auto and mebbe Amazon once for something. I've ended up with...
  12. Ellie Niner

    8-track player install

    I haven't messed around with 8-tracks since I was a kid, and it was my Grandmother who was rocking the player... I do remember hers being slightly cantankerous even then, and it was a bit like playing russian roulette when you inserted a tape into the player. About one out of 25 would make funny...
  13. Ellie Niner

    High Amp Alternator

    @custodian - Is the 105 amp alternator (I'm presuming it's a CS130D) unable to keep up with demand when you've got the travel trailer connected? While I'd prefer to not work an alternator near 100% capacity for long periods of time, sometimes it's better than installing a high amperage...
  14. Ellie Niner

    Headlights go on and off

    The way your headlights are going out, then coming back on looks exactly like an overloaded circuit breaker (and not a dead short). If you're running the stock bulbs those new headlights came with (they should be a 9006 in the low beam and 9005 in the high), they're well under the 15 amp rating...
  15. Ellie Niner

    I bought a 1984 and don’t know what to do???

    It's okay to not know how to tune a carburetor. Some of the rest of us are driving carbureted trucks that start easily when cold and don't flood when hot... without bogging, stumbling, stalling, or loading up. Cruising, working, climbing, off roading, towing. My truck can be hopped in and...
  16. Ellie Niner

    What's the best way to drain the gas tank?

    For some reason, my phone doesn't feel like sharing its photos right now (I think it's waiting for a software update to be installed with a claw hammer), but this is what I'm using: Mr Gasket Micro 12s Fuel Pump I just pulled it out of a junk box and rigged it up with about 3.5' of hose on the...
  17. Ellie Niner

    What's the best way to drain the gas tank?

    I've been using a cheap inline electric fuel pump to do the dirty work for the last few years. I disconnect the fuel outlet as close to the tank as I can get, slip a hose over it, and usually power the pump off a 12v power supply or spare battery or whatever is expedient. It pumps ~1 gallon a...
  18. Ellie Niner

    Instrument Cluster Installation

    @Randy De Oreo All of the 1976 trucks I've seen have a voltmeter, though I wouldn't be super surprised to find out that a few squeaked out of some assembly plant with an ammeter early in the year or something like that. My 1975 GMC heavy 3/4 ton came out of the Fremont plant wearing Sierra...
  19. Ellie Niner

    Instrument Cluster Installation

    Okay, I'll throw my bit in here, as I have worked with both the 73-75 ammeter and the 76-up voltmeter. You *can* get the ammeter to work, and work safely, but it's usually really time consuming to make one display what your charging system is doing somewhat accurately; they tend to only twitch...
  20. Ellie Niner

    A rattle when driving

    Haha! I love how HappyWordz Profanity Filter™ spanked that GM TSB so we don't have to see suggestions of how spark plugs were violated. *** is still engineering their Electronic Spark Control system... It needs to be molded into the underside of the dash pad, contain the glove box latch, be...
  21. Ellie Niner

    85 C10 No headlights or cluster lights

    How'd someone manage to melt the cargo light housing? :oops: Those are a fairly heavy pot metal casting. Dome light housings on 1984-up pickups tend to get pretty cooked... but none of that is going to affect your headlights. All of the symptoms you're giving points to the problem being before...
  22. Ellie Niner

    85 C10 No headlights or cluster lights

    The larger gauge red wire on the back of the headlight switch is the feed. I *think* it heads directly through the firewall without passing through the fuse block, then wraps around the back side of the engine and heads up by the alternator (but not to it) before joining up with another few...
  23. Ellie Niner

    ESC need someone that knows more about ESC system than I do

    That sounds about like how mine was set up... My vacuum delay valve clogged up and wouldn't bleed off vacuum quickly enough a long time ago, and the TVS was sticking so that the delay valve was in the (vacuum) circuit even when the engine was warm, so I bypassed it and am running straight ported...
  24. Ellie Niner

    ESC need someone that knows more about ESC system than I do

    @SirRobyn0 - Believe it or not, my 1986 Owner's Manual mentions that light spark knock under certain operating conditions is perfectly normal. IIRC, it even tries to spin it into a positive attribute... like the presence of a touch of detonation means that you're getting maximum performance and...
  25. Ellie Niner

    Opinions please on possible use for zinc oil additive

    I was a power equipment mechanic for some years just out of high school, and observed that many governed, air cooled singles sound a bit raucous when first starting... they are at WOT until the engine is near operating rpm... and generators have a heavy rotor to spin up along with the flywheel...

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