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  1. WamboJambo

    Chain Grade for Lifting Body from Frame

    Lol I'm well aware of your pics or GTFO rules, but what do you want pics of? Unrelated pics of my chevy? Or pictures of the half-dismantled wreck of a car in the garage?
  2. WamboJambo

    Chain Grade for Lifting Body from Frame

    Gah, thank you all. This is EXACTLY the type of information I was looking for. Real home-garage application type stuff, not the crazy world of industrial specs. I was looking at exactly the chain @Vbb199 posted so I'll probably go with that. I assumed it had to be some sort of CYA or...
  3. WamboJambo

    Chain Grade for Lifting Body from Frame

    Hey all, Not sure if this is the right place to post but it seems tool and safety related. I'm ramping up to pull the body of my 1968 Pontiac GTO from its frame to end the tear-down phase and get into actual restoration. I plan on using an engine hoist and some lengths of chain to lift both...
  4. WamboJambo

    1981 C10 2" Lift Question

    Oh yeah, I forgot pictures of the 2" lift blocks. Before: After:
  5. WamboJambo

    1981 C10 2" Lift Question

    I just chucked 2" lift blocks in my 1978 C10's rear suspension, was cheap and easy and gave it more of an aggressive "rake" with no real negative impact. Is an easy start. I've done a good bit of research on lifting the front and it seems considerably more difficult, something about sourcing...
  6. WamboJambo

    What is this?

    On my truck I had a TVS in that exact same spot, low on the passenger side of the engine. Was hooked up to the Early Fuel Evaporation (EFE) system. Except on mine those lines went to a manifold vacuum fitting and the EFE valve on the exhaust, not to the distributor. This was on a 78 though
  7. WamboJambo

    Help! Carburetor on 250 I-6

    So I did a quick little search for your fuel injection thing, and I found a thread over at inliners about fuel injection on a 250, and Tom Lowe (of 12bolt.com fame, pretty big in inline stuff from what I've seen so far) suggested that you can toss a 2bbl Holley TBI kit on it, though it'd be a...
  8. WamboJambo

    Help! Carburetor on 250 I-6

    Also, I think that the earlier 230s and 194s also used the same intake setup. Don't buy anything based on that information though, not positive. If you look at Summit for their applications on the Offenhauser 5416 they suggest it'll fit a 194, 230, 250, and even a 292.
  9. WamboJambo

    Help! Carburetor on 250 I-6

    I've been doing a lot of research on this lately and the only ones I see commonly made these days are performance-oriented, and the big names are Offenhauser and Clifford. Both of them make single-quad barrel intakes and triple single barrel intakes, but I'd guess that's a little aggressive for...
  10. WamboJambo

    Help! Carburetor on 250 I-6

    Also it's a shame you're not closer; I just finished ripping off my stock intake/exhaust/monojet that have given me zero problems and swapped it for a new intake and headers. Would be interesting to see if swapping on a good intake and working stock carburetor would make your carburetor...
  11. WamboJambo

    Help! Carburetor on 250 I-6

    I will say, it definitely can't hurt to just plug it in there; all it'll do is dump evaporated fuel vapors into the charcoal canister.
  12. WamboJambo

    Help! Carburetor on 250 I-6

    I believe this would be a vacuum diagram for your vehicle. Personally though, I see that your fuel bowl vent on your carburetor is unplugged, and when I undid all the hoses on my 250 I had a line going from there to the evap canister. Possibly related?
  13. WamboJambo

    EGR and EFE removal, and what to do with evap canister

    So as to not leave people with a dead thread, just gonna go ahead and throw out what I did with it. Finished the install this weekend, and it seems to run okay like this. Will do some proper timing and touching-up of idle (maybe swapping to manifold vacuum as well like nabeshin recommended)...
  14. WamboJambo

    EGR and EFE removal, and what to do with evap canister

    Wow! I got things completely backwards, I thought stock used ported vacuum. Thanks a bunch for that tip, will do! Do you know if it matters if I run the top or bottom hoses to manifold vacuum? Or should I do both and tee it off like shown in the diagram?
  15. WamboJambo

    EGR and EFE removal, and what to do with evap canister

    Hi all, I'm replacing my intake, exhaust, and carburetor in one fell swoop. As such, I'm working on some emissions vacuum routing to make everything work as expected. Part of that involves exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and early fuel evaporation (EFE) systems. This topic has been gone over...
  16. WamboJambo

    Long Time Lurker

    Heh, not at all! Your builds are definitely not something I'd ever do myself, but the custom fabrication work and research/planning you have to do is hella impressive. I'm still trying to get over my own fears of breaking something when starting any big project, so I look to some of the work...
  17. WamboJambo

    Long Time Lurker

    Yeah, it's been interesting watching your build threads, I actually grew up in Hickory, not too far from Salisbury. Nice little area, would probably still be there if my line of work had much of anything for jobs out there.
  18. WamboJambo

    Long Time Lurker

    That's actually my next plan once I'm done with the new intake and exhaust; I've got my eyes on a comp 240H grind with timing set that I'd like to put in as well, just gonna hold off a few months so as not to spend all my money at once. I've seen lots of posts on the lump port modifications but...
  19. WamboJambo

    Long Time Lurker

    Uh, yup. Don't mind me, just been creepin' on you guys. :hidesbehindsofa:
  20. WamboJambo

    Long Time Lurker

    Lol nice, looks like you're about set up for a brand new engine in that tractor huh? That's pretty awesome, I hope I reach a point in my life where I just stumble across engine parts. I'm slowly amassing a collection myself
  21. WamboJambo

    Long Time Lurker

    For reference, here's the intake/exhaust passages on the head on my 250 (still in the truck but you get an idea):
  22. WamboJambo

    Long Time Lurker

    I'm gonna start by saying I know very little about engines, I'm pretty new to all this. That said, is that an inline 6? I only see four sets of valves in that head, wouldn't that make at an inline 4 (or one head from a v8)? There also look to be way too few intake/exhaust passages
  23. WamboJambo

    Long Time Lurker

    Oh and I forgot to mention when I posted the engine pic, but luckily despite it being a 1978 the previous owner appears to have already swapped out the integrated head or an older one, so that opened up a lot of avenues for modification without having to replace the whole head.
  24. WamboJambo

    Long Time Lurker

    From what I understand the 292 was actually a whole different block; I bought Leo Santucci's "Power Bible" or whatever and he differentiates them as "standard low deck" vs. "heavy duty tall deck". I definitely know that the motor mounts don't line up and that the deck is taller; uncertain if...
  25. WamboJambo

    Long Time Lurker

    I know, it hurt me to do it...but there was no radio whatsoever, so that would involve finding a factory radio and going ahead and wiring all that in just to keep the dash original, and I didn't think it was worth the effort. I've never intended for this to be a "restoration" project, this is...

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