I'll tell ya, it's been slow going on the project. I've been working on other damn trucks though! That divorced choke on the big fella just wouldn't get hot enought to pull all the way off so I build a cute little bell-crank to mount in its place and hooked up the ol' push-pull cable. Manual choke blows, but it works now! The other Sonny Boy has a late '80s Japanese truck with probably the very last carburetor before FI. Holy crap! Sucker has at least 5 solenoids and maybe more vacuum actuators. There has to be a dozen vacuum hoses. It's full of tamper-proof screws, covers and plugs. I was thinking I'd throw a kit in it
. Screw that sh!t. I cleaned it off, tightened it up and wound up the idle a bit. Its running pretty well now but if there are any other issues its getting a Weber conversion.
So, plan is to get the shop back in order tonight and get back on the bodywork this week. I've got the moolah to pick up the paint so I'll be doing that here soon too. I'm going with that Martin Senour Cross-Fire stuff. $150/5qts sprayable for BC and $76/5qts sprayable for CC. Oh, and I ordered an aluminum bellhousing on EBay (........403 '69 Z28)
and will be scoring a tubular trans x-member from Rob. Gotta cut that bellhousing cross member out and cut/weld some exhaust pass-thrus in the rear member.
I'd happily accept any assistance you can send my way!!