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It’s Saturday and felt it was time to update the progress this week.

Had one defeat. Could get the retainer pin out of the gas pedal. See pics. Ended up cutting the head of the rod off with my Dremel and removing the old one and putting the new one on. Can’t tell there was a major fight there now.

Got the fuel cut off valve in and installed. Good thing too. Later on that.

Got gas tank installed a couple days ago and installed the sending unit last night even though the gauge doesn’t work right. I’ll keep mental track of fuel level. Too much work getting the cluster installed and wired to go back now.

Hooked up fuel lines this morning and put some gas in the carb and it fired up. Yea!
The I checked and found the fitting at the fuel pump was leaking pretty good.
Went in the cab and switched the gas off. Walaa it stopped leaking. Pulled the fitting and found the 5/16 fitting was gauled badly. See pic.

Trip to hardware store and nada on the same fitting but found a 5/16 barb whick worked.
Came home and cut the fuel line and installed barbs and hose. Turned fuel back on. No leaks.

Now on to best part of my day. Was pouring gas in carb and it would run for 5 to 20 seconds and die. Each time I’d check the fuel pump glass to see if it was filling up yet. Repeated it a bit and at some point it kept running. It dropped to an idle and sounded like a singer sewing machine.

Turned it off after about 30 seconds since I hadn’t put water in it yet. I did dance around the truck a couple times before going to get the water hose.

See last pic. Got a nice sized hole in a freeze plug. Not going to replace it ATM. Purest will hate it but I’ve got some marine JB weld. Yeah you know what I’m gonna do.

Last note. After it ran for half a minute it died. Did that twice. Going to wait til after I fix water leak to run it again. I!m thinking carb problem butto early to tell.

Sorry for the long post but hope you enjoyed it. Til next time.