What have you done to your square lately??

[Goldie Driver]

Maybe thats why my trucks a dog. Wonder if i could make a block off plate

2 bolts and rectangular- I bet ya could make one really easy with some thin sheet metal.

Dog - dunno. I was thinking you had changed your engine, but...

If what you put in was another low compression smog engine from the same era then you, like me, have a 180 HP hot rod, and that was when it was new !

4 bangers can do that now ...

 

[78C10BigTen]

I did 3... engine changes. Supposedly this one was stock from the the guys grandpas 76. Im doin a distributor swap soon hopefully

 

[RecklessWOT]

If what you put in was another low compression smog engine from the same era then you, like me, have a 180 HP hot rod, and that was when it was new !

4 bangers can do that now ...

Unfortunately that is true. Stock that's in line with your standard new small car.
My daily is a 15 year old car with a 2.5L 4cyl, over the summer it dynoed 269 AWHP with just shy of 200k miles on the clock, accounting for AWD drivetrain losses the car has somewhere in the neighborhood of 350hp at the flywheel. I still get 20mpg too. And that's all just from a couple bolt-ons, it's freakin nuts. Brand new cars are pumping out 200+hp from little 2L 4cyl engines that get 35mpg, it's crazy.

I love my truck, but yeah that chunk of iron under the hood is pretty useless in today's world.

 

[73c20jim]

Nothing today.

Had to fix the well pump. All good so far.

 

[Goldie Driver]

Well, as promised, timing was set this morning.

Set it at 10 BTDC - seemed to idle a little better.

I played with the vaccuum gauge method some, too - used the hose for the EFE where the TVS switch is on all the time, but did not see much of a difference.

It read 18 pretty much. Afterwards, I tried the EGR hose - no vacuum at idle, and it goes up when the throttle is blipped.

Good, good !

I tried the connection to the vaccuum reservoir last- pretty steady 15.

That sounds closer to accurate for this 100K plus " hot rod" , but any idea why a TVS switch would magnify vacuum?

Lost on that one.

 

[MrMarty51]

Insttalled the battery and fired it up.
Might need a spare four weeel drive if the wifey ruins My 2000 K3500 like she once did.

 

[Goldie Driver]

Insttalled the battery and fired it up.
Might need a spare four weeel drive if the wifey ruins My 2000 K3500 like she once did.

Hmm - back story ?

 

[bucket]

Hmm - back story ?

I kinda remember something about the front suspension maybe?

 

[Goldie Driver]

Test drove her - no hot rod, and only in the sixties today, but several floorboarding experiments and speeds up to 65 ish downshifted without any clatter I could distinguish.

Still a bit of rough idle, but I'll run her like she is for now.

 

[SDJunkMan]

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Broke my plow. Lost a pin while knocking down a drift and bent the hinge bar. Hopefully I can find one in town and weld it up tomorrow so I can finish plowing.

 

[MrMarty51]

Hmm - back story ?

I kinda remember something about the front suspension maybe?

Yup, dropped the front end over a retaining wall, through the process the left side tie rod adjuster got bent.

 

[MrMarty51]

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Broke my plow. Lost a pin while knocking down a drift and bent the hinge bar. Hopefully I can find one in town and weld it up tomorrow so I can finish plowing.

That's too bad about the plow hinge bar. Can a new one be built ?

 

[Goldie Driver]

Yup, dropped the front end over a retaining wall, through the process the left side tie rod adjuster got bent.

Whoops!

Was the wall hidden , and I am assuming all OK other than the tie rod adjuster ?

 

[SDJunkMan]

That's too bad about the plow hinge bar. Can a new one be built ?

They sell them, found one online, but I hope I can find one locally this morning. It's just a piece of about 1 1/4" bar stock, but it has a slight bend in it which would be very hard to duplicate without a huge press. I tried to straighten mine out in a 10 ton press ant it didn't budge.

 

[Vbb199]

They sell them, found one online, but I hope I can find one locally this morning. It's just a piece of about 1 1/4" bar stock, but it has a slight bend in it which would be very hard to duplicate without a huge press. I tried to straighten mine out in a 10 ton press ant it didn't budge.

Put a lil heat to it and slightly over bend it

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