The Great White Landshark

[502ms]

I think that you should stop now, and let it come my way.

[NewType72]

I've stopped but just because its cheaper to drive my truck and not put it down
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[meatwagon83]

i daily my dually too, gas milage be damned but its about to get the 454 rebuilt and its getting a 4l80e so it may get a bit better, if we go anywhere far away we take the womans car,35mpg

[NewType72]

That's cool man that was the plan with this truck since I'm only 10 miles round trip to work and back but she just started havin too many issues and I've let it sit since then
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[JCampbell]

So what do you plan to do about passing smog with the air rails gone/plugged?

[NewType72]

It's registered as a 1974 no smog needed
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[JCampbell]

Nice.

[NewType72]

Very since it s a built 454 and definitely won't pass lol
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[Palf70Step]

They look good together.

[NewType72]

Thank you I need to give some lovin to the dually right now just tryin to find time at the moment. She's needs a rebuilt carb and correct size u joint to get going again. Oh and insurance but that would be cheap
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[Hulk Will Smash]

I think I've said it elsewhere, but damn this is a cool truck! Keep up the good work man!
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[NewType72]

Thank you but all credit is for my dad since he built this truck which in turn pushed me to stay classic when we did my 72
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[NewType72]

Alright I've been a huge time slacker and had alot of lost motivation with this truck after the u-joint was re-done and still wobbled under power so I finally got some motivation from 502ms and a few other members and got to work last night and measured the new u-joint end cap width 3.63" vs the rear end's yok inside width 3.76" so that means I have about .13 of unused space to let it wobble around under power which is alot for any tolerance. Now I'm just curious because they told us there was only one type of u-joint for this driveline/rear end I don't believe that because theres no way their tolerance is that large. I run the CNC's in a machine shop and we get in trouble for anything over .0015 of a distance so there must be another type out there to use.



I'll look into that this next week.

Now for the big news I pulled my carb off because the truck certainly stumbled and popped and farted whenever we drove it. so time for a rebuild I'm keeping the Edelbrock 1407 750 cfm because it ran this carb since 92 out of the box never adjusted aside from a 1/2 turn on the idle so in shell stay. A man I was recommended is rebuilding it today as I type this so I'll be ready to pick it up in a couple hours and maybe re-install before sundown and try it out.



it decided to leave a bolt in the intake but that'll be easy to pull out



Also a little bit of California dreamin for the Landshark so year...

[NewType72]

What's the best way to drain the tanks and lines so i don't gum up the carb again??

[NewType72]

Well bad news from the driveline shop they're saying the my yok is worn out 3.760" inside the stops compare to their u-joints outside diameter 3.630 to the edge of the caps. Could that be possible? I've never know a yok to go bad like that. If its true how much of a pain is it to replace a yok in my driveway?
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