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    What have I done with this tach?

    I installed a autogage 3 3/4 tach while swapping motors. The wiring was fairly straightforward, or so i thought. I spliced into the gray wire which should be the dash lights, from what i can find. The lights in the tach work perfectly, but when I turn them on the tach lights up and the rest...
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    TH400 needs help

    Fascinating! I didn't know that, would LMC have the little bugger, or would I be better off going to my local NAPA? I don't suppose you could tell me where it attaches to the tranny could you? Thanks for the info BTW!
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    Stupid previous owners suck

    Proper prep is everything! With enough elbow grease and attention to detail you can still paint a car in your driveway. Or with rattlecans LOL
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    What is your square body dream truck?

    I would love to have an early seventies SWB 2wd like the Holley Shop Truck that was just written up in Classic Trucks. So-Cal Speedshop did it up right with an LS6 dressed like a vintage BBC and left the outside alone! I have always loved the "muscle truck" look.
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    TH400 needs help

    With my new engine finally up and running strong, it has come to my attention that the trans needs some attention. Firstly, I am not sure if I have the modulator hooked up to the correct port on the front of the carb. By null at 2010-08-23 The modulator line is the little skinny thing that...
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    PCV Question

    Well I did exactly as you guys suggested and guess what? PROBLEM SOLVED!! Thank God, I don't have to yank out my newly installed engine. The leak stopped almost imediately and hasn't recurred. I took her for a nice forty mile cruise yesterday and another roughly twenty miles today. She runs...
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    PCV Question

    Would the lack of a positive crankcase ventilation system cause a new crate engine to leak out of its rear main seal? Could a new engine concieveably be that tight? My Blueprint 383 is pushing oil out the rear main and that is the only reason I can think of as to why. I have rigged up a PCV...
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    Rigging up cruise control

    Check out wiring and vacuum line diagrams for that year that should give you a general idea of the components and how they were interconnected. My 85 had it on the original drivetrain but most of the underhood pieces are long gone. There is a brake switch that I believe disengages the cruise...
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    Gaaahhh!! Timing a 383

    I have never shot video and tried to post it before, but would like to try. Can I use imageshack for that? And how would I get the video onto my computer if my camera is old school? I would love to share, the truck sounds bad-ass!
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    Stupid previous owners suck

    The thing that is difficult for me to wrap my brain around is why the hell you would eliminate the AC at all. Its not as if you are dealing with a four cylinder engine that loses a third of its WHP when you switch on the air for chrissakes! I am sort of considering ADDING A/C to mine for the...
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    Crap.

    My dad has suggested adding a PCV valve between the air cleaner and one of the valve covers. I currently am running baffles in the valve covers instead of a PCV. I'm going to try it in hopes of curing the leak. The leak is not severe, probably less than half a quart total, since start-up...
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    Crap.

    Then it probably was assembled dry dammit. Although they claim to have dyno run the engine before crating it up. It stands to reason that they would have seen a leaking rear main seal right? Then again.....
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    Gaaahhh!! Timing a 383

    Well it turned out it was the fuel pump after all. Jegs must have sent me one for an older motor than I have. I cleaned up and installed the pump off the old motor and she fired right up! Got her dynamically timed yesterday and took her for a nice little cruise this evening. She sounds...
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    Stupid previous owners suck

    Where to begin LOL Radiator held in with zip ties. Tranny cooler plumbed entirely with plumbing bits from Home Depot. Radio wired by a ten year old with electrical tape and nothing else, the splices were just the raw ends folded over each other and covered in three inches of tape. Oh and...
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    Crap.

    It was the pump. Not sure if it was meant for an older motor than mine or not, but I used the old pump off the blowed up 350 and it fired right up:grd: It looks like the lever arm is too short on the new pump that i got from Jegs. Now i have an oil leak that looks like it is coming from the...
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    Air Pump

    And the fifteen or so pounds you lose will gain you 1/57 per gallon better economy LOL
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    Anyone have any info/pics on stripping & painting dash?

    I think I would like to get one of the Grant "nostalgia" wheels for mine. The one that looks like the old Corvette wheel. Walnut rim, slotted stainless spokes. It won't match the rest of the interior but who cares?
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    Crap.

    The only 3/8 line that goes from the pick-up in the tank all the way to the front of the engine compartment. It has to be the one. Well, it doesn't HAVE to be but still.... Could Jegs have sent me a bum pump I wonder?
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    Anyone have any info/pics on stripping & painting dash?

    Somebody hit his horn button too hard putting it back in! Mine is cracked in precisely the same spot LOL
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    Air Pump

    73 is awful early to even have one. If you ditch it, take care to remove EVERYTHING associated with the system, believe me you don't want to be wondering what all those extra lines are for later
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    Gaaahhh!! Timing a 383

    Blueprint Engines, the company that made the motor. There was a little hang tag on the distributor when I un-crated it that reads: "WARNING The initial advance should be set at 13-16 degress BTDC. The total advance should be NO MORE then 34 degress BTDC and should be reached by about 4000...
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    Crap.

    Something horrible is what I said last night when I had finished killing myself dropping the gas tank (3/4 FULL!) tracing the lines, remounting the fuel pump, falling on my already bad ankle, and STILL NO FUCKING FUEL! I'm taking a few days off from working on the truck before I do something...
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    Gaaahhh!! Timing a 383

    I was thinking the same thing ^^ But thats what they say to start it out at, soooooo. As far as I know the tank hasn't been off the truck, but knowing what i do about the previous owners "engineering" background all bets are off! I am probably going to drop the tank to facilitate removing any...
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    Crap.

    Trying desperately to get the 383 buttoned up and started. First I couldn't get it static timed (lack of practice and never done one from scratch before) Got that done, then the ignition was dead. I forgot to run a battery wire to the distributor (one of many things i cut loose and threw away...
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    Anyone have any info/pics on stripping & painting dash?

    Mine needs one desperately. I had my dash pad off yesterday to wire up the tach, and it is a disaster! Very little actual structure left of it, its all cracked and dried out like a mummy LOL

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