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The leak is fixed. I believe I'll work on getting a choke next. It's too inconvenient trying to get the motor going without one. I took her out on the road for the first time with the new motor. I went to the gas station for some midgrade to cut down on the cackling. It didn't help much. I guess I'l...

I came across this website and found it very interesting.

http://www.thirdgen.org/o2tuning

I wonder if I could install an O2 sensor in my truck exhaust, hook it up and then use it to tune the jetting on my Holley.

At this point, I believe this leak can be attributed to a bad decision on my part. I was too cheap to replace the timing cover when I assembled the motor. I remember questioning how well it would seal. I resurfaced all the bad spots, but in the end I deserve what I got. I should have replaced it. An...

It's great so see such tremendous progress...oh! Wait! We are not seeing or hearing anything. Words just don't cut it anymore. We want multi-media!

Well the ol' gal is silent again. I tried a lot of things to stop the flow of water from the outside, then decided it's time to start pulling things apart again. After several hours of bathing in antifreeze, I'm close to the timing cover. Tomorrow, I will pull the balancer and the fuel pump and I'm ...

I adjusted the clutch and took her for a ride through the neighborhood this morning. Nice ride. Motor ran good. Responsive and strong...but a lot of cackling pulling in high gear on a grade. It looks like I need to make more timing adjustments and maybe even get off the 87 octane! What a time to fin...

I'm looking forward to getting FlowMasters on it. What you hear are the old turbo mufflers that have been on it for years. Either way she sure sounds sweet. In case you are wondering about the cam I chose for this motor, its a Comp Cams 265 DEH DESCRIPTION: HYDRAULIC: Very strong mid-range. Everyday...

Since I'm feeling so good about my recent successes I thought I'd treat y'all to a movie.

4.6MB http://www.tiresmoke.org/walt/running.avi

Don't ya just love the internet? I just found the answer to my ballast resistor "perceived" problem. I found it in the Ford Truck Enthusiast forum. "Be sure to check the coil + voltage with the points closed or with a jumper wire from the coil - to ground. If the points are open you w...

Finally!!!!....a step in the right direction. The new single point stock distributor seems to have solved the ignition problems. At first I was having a devil of a time getting it started...until I realized that I had run it out of gas. Good thing I had a coupla gallons of lawn mower gas. I still ha...

The saga continues... It turns out that the Accel dual point distributor is a bit worn. The shaft wobbles and makes it impossible to set the points accurately. I bought a rebuilt single point unit last night. I'll use it for now with the idea of adding a Pertronics electronic conversion later. As fo...

Well...the misfiring is not the coil. I tried all three coils and there was no change. I'm going to go over the distributor with a fine tooth comb tomorrow. I'm also quite disappointed that the water leak is still there after tightening all the bolts. I'm going to borrow the pressure tester from Whe...

Well, now that we are all back from Carlisle I see a lot of TireSmoke project activity. At Carlisle, I was looking for an electronic distributor for the 460, but saw none at all. I spent a lot of time today investigating options. It turns out that the Accel dual point distributor that I have is the ...

MostMint,
From 31.1 to 18.6 average mpg. Hmmmm....
I expected no less from you. Hope you enjoyed it.

Fred, there's a lot of satisfaction in hearing this thing fire up, but it wasn't half as much fun as having you here to move things along. Thanks for your supreme effort to come down and visit. We had a great time gettin' greasy. I'm still hoping to drive Ol' Blue to Carisle, but she's gotta show me...