Spent most of the morning hooking the wood stove back up and it had it good a toasty. Kerosene is way too expensive and I've got free easy access to wood, just need to cut & split it up lol.
Gord, looks like someone installed an oil pressure switch where the TVS is supposed to be.
Oil pressure senderThats alright tho, I'm thinking of installing a Tee there, might try the OEM oil press gauge and a new electric gauge in a 3-gauge cluster under the dash.
Got a few questions on the temp gauge senders and their locations.
Theres a very small electric temp sender (9/16's socket removed it) on the head towards the rear. Did this one work the temp gauge?
Small sender in headSmall sender next to normal sized senderTheres another electric temp sender below the thermostat. Would this be a good location for the fan control thermostat?
Sender below thermostatReceived the 2SE Varajet Sat. It appears to have been cleaned and rebuilt. I opted for the elec choke. It's spec'ed for a 75-79 Pontiac/Buick but should work fine on the 250.
2SE carb 12SE carb 22SE carb 3Bolted right up. The trucks throttle is cable controlled and I'll have to make up a bracket to bolt the cable to it. The bracket that worked for the Quadrajet won't fit on the 2SE . That and an air cleaner to fit a square carb mouth is minor at this point.
This 2SE had the same problem as the Quadrajet, fast idles fine bit won't slow idle. I'm suspecting the PCV mount in the intake manifold has a massive vacuum leak. Someone has siliconed the vacuum pipe back down onto the manifold after apparantly breaking it off.
I would have played with it more but I had the shop shut up tight to keep the heat in and after running it for a couple minutes the cleaning fluid I sprayed all over the engine and washed the gunk and grime down around the exhaust manifold and pipes started smoking like crazy. So I ran it enough at fast idle to hopefully burn it all off and quit for the evening.
Later....
