Minnesota Daily Driver

[y5mgisi]

Subscribed! Loving the story!

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Originally Posted by y5mgisi

Subscribed! Loving the story!

Thanks, I appreciate it.

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Been busy recently so hopefully I'll have some time to continue the story soon.

On another note I did have the carb rebuilt while I was working on the engine. Lately it has been running rough so I decided to take it back apart and look for myself. I found that there was a piece of paper towel under one of the primary jets. Got the top rebuilt and noticed the throte shafts have some play so now I waiting on bushings to get it completed. Hopefully once that's done all will be good engine wise.

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That's a bummer about the paper towel, but glad you figured it out. What rebuild kit did you use the second time? Do you have a Qjet manual?

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I used a rebuild kit from NAPA and bought Cliff Ruggles How to Rebuild and Modify Rochestor Quadrajet Carburetors as a guide. The book was very helpful.

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She's back on the road again. I ended up having to open up the idle mixture screws from .075 to .090, remove the soldered plugs from the idle air bypass, and recurve the dizzy. Dizzy set-up is now 12* initial, 20* mechanical starting at 800 rpm & all in at 3,000, and vacuum advance limited to 10* on ported vacuum.

Did a test drive and she ran well, knock on wood. Hopefully it'll be set for a while. I'm looking forward to using it for DD duty.

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So far so good. I've been driving the truck daily now for over a week. We've been in a cold snap here this week and she's been starting well. One morning it was about -3F.

Got some mud flaps on order & I want to get them installed soon before the roads get real sloppy/ salty.

[tip]

Daily driving it! any pics to share? I'd be interested to hear what parts you used to recurve your distributor.

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I'll post some pics later.

The parts I used for the dizzy were new bushings for the weights and the crane cams adjustable vacuum kit.

As far as setting it up, I made my own plate to limit the advance to 10* (stock is 20*) on the advance side. The kit comes with a plate to adjust it on the return side which requires resetting the base timing with an adjustment of the limit point. I set the timing can 9 turns out from being turned fully clockwise. Then I installed one medium and one heavy spring from the kit.

Also if your going to do this I recommend to pull the dizzy and clean/ lube it as well as replacing the electronics while its out. This will help to make sure that you get consistent results.

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Helped my uncle move his Mustang today. Truck pulled the car well.

[y5mgisi]

I bet it did! Looks great!

[Oregoon]

Man, that's a tough-looking truck! I love it. Great job!

I have nothing against anyone's projects whatsover--if you love it and make it your own, I am thrilled for you--but personally, my tastes run to old farm rigs, plow trucks, crummies, law-enforcent vehicles, military stuff, etc...

I love seeing a sweet 'bagger and a chromed-up show-truck, but what the thing that always gets me fired up is a truck doing what a truck is meant to do.

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Here's a pic of moving a boat around. It's definatly convient to have a receiver on the front of a truck.

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Thanks y5mgisi & Oregoon, I appreciate the compliments.

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Back on track with the story, I pulled the heater core and blower housing knowing they needed to be cleaned out and also I wanted to replace the heater core and blower while they were easily accessible. After pulling the blower housing I found some more rust to repair on the firewall.

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I also got the cab corners welded in. I had to get a bit creative on holding them in place so I could weld them. A ratchet strap and c-clamped worked out well.

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Also got the fire walled patched.

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Then the new tanks hangers, tanks, and sending units.

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Removed the windshield and rear window to find some more rust in the bottom of the windshield channel.

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Windshield channel was patched.

[MTCK]

Nice work! I'm excited because I see we have 10+ months of updates coming based on the date stamped photos. :-)

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Originally Posted by MTCK

Nice work! I'm excited because I see we have 10+ months of updates coming based on the date stamped photos. :-)

Thanks. I do have a lot more progress to post. I got a lot done on it last year. It's a continual process, I keep finding things to do on it.

A couple of weekends ago I tore down the steering column to replace the wiper and multi function switch. While I was in there I also replaced the turn signal switch as preventative maintenance.

Also installed a stereo over the last couple weeks. So I'll have some pics to post of that.

[77K10Silverado]

Looking good! Love the high boy look!

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Originally Posted by 77K10Silverado

Looking good! Love the high boy look!

Thanks!

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The truck's been serving me well as a daily driver. It had been getting into the 20's & 30's below over the last few months and she ran well.

Also time to continue the story:

After getting the windshield channel repaired I hung the doors to see how they lined up with the repaired rockers and cab corners.