Open Throttle

I haven't posted in a while mainly due to the distraction of another project that has been unfinished since I started this blog.  It's still not done but because of the work we put into it over the last 3 weeks, it will be done in short order (I hope!)

So down to truck business.  Everything was running pretty good 3 weeks ago when the carburetor decided to have a mind of its own.  Now I am not going to detail this out, so lets just leave it as "I was uninformed to the fuel/air situation at hand".  So that you learn something from all my poorly written post;

1. Check the up and down float levels of any Carter carburetor, even if new.
2. Screen fuel filters are a waste of money, use paper.
3. Carter carburetors don't like fuel pressure over 6 psi.  
4. The hair pins on this carb are tiny.   Beware!

The throttle linkage was binding up going from the peddle end to the carb using the Lokar TV cable bracket.  The short distance for the cable was trying to bend around too many corners.  To put things in alignment, I made a bracket out of Stainless Steel (good practice for working with SS) and used the 2 holes in the gas pedal to attach it to.  Then I got rid of the short outer cable and cable nut.  

This works pretty well although I am not quite satisfied that it is functioning as well as it could be.  The last fraction of and inch of wide open throttle is hard to get to due to the spring tension and angle of the linkage.