another update...
made it to kimball, ne today, almost into wyoming
had a very strong head wind pretty much all day, hold on to your hat wind. killed gas mileage, down to about 5mpg and top speed was in the 45-50 range. hopefully it dies down tonight, although now we get the rockies
truck was dying on coming down to idle, I adjusted the idle screw on the carb in as far as it goes, only a couple turns possible as it was already almost all the way in. I also tried adjusting the idle mixture screws per the manual which also seemed to help a bit although it was difficult to tell the effect these had, ended up with them both about 1 1/2 turns out. It was still dying occasionally coming down to idle so i held it open a bit more using the hand throttle cable and that has seemed to work.
pretty strong smell of gas in the cab, tank venting into cab? The outside of the carb is wet but some of that seems to be from oil leaking down from the air filter, could be some fuel though as well.
any advice for altitude adjustments? we will get up to 8,000ft tomorrow i believe. Don't have much experience with gassers, been mostly working on diesels.
other than these things it's been going well, was invited into a garage in a small town on the 30 to see a crazy custom built rv, on a '47 ford farm truck frame was built a 29ft riveted aluminum body and full finished on the inside. calendar on the wall inside was '64 and it was in remarkably good shape, must have taken someone years. Some interesting features like the only door to the vehicle was a side door into the living area, so no front doors, could easily seat 4 wide in the cab up front. crazy linkage all the way from the front to the engine in back. certainly one of a kind. for sale as well
talked to a number of fire chiefs who love it, meeting lots of interesting folks out here, nobody has seen anything quite like this
backing up traffic a bit even on the four lane divided highways as people like to drive beside us to take pictures.
which do you think is better mileage wise when i need to be just about between gears, running high rpm at the top end of 4hi, or lower rpm's at the low end of 5hi
don't need to go into salt lake anymore so we'll be able to skip it to the north, 84 up to through idaho, 20 across oregon
not sure if we will go 80 all the way to 84 or cut north on 30, ending up in pocatello then down 86 to 84, mileage seems to be the same both way, not sure what the elevation changes will be like either way
try to get you some pictures eventually
lebn schuyler
