Drove the kids up to The Ranch Friday night. Pop's been having trouble with his 1977 Chevrolet Truck. Seemed like a good excuse for a visit. 245 miles...
His '77 had a 6.2 litre diesel in it for years, then a 6.5 litre for a while. About 15 years ago, Pop decided he wanted a gasoline motor.
I had a 307 that I gave him, with a pair of 305 HO heads that had new guides and stock springs. The motor only needed rings and bearings, and I had a 327/300 camshaft and lifters that I gave him, along with a big block oil pump. We also found a serpentine setup from a newer Chevy truck laying around. Cheap!!!
Pop wanted a carburetor and points for reliability. I built him a Quadrajet with .037" idle tubes and .034" idle channel restrictions, so you have a greater degree of adjustability over the idle, where a stock Q-Jet's mixture needles only give you more or less of a preset mixture. I changed all the air bleeds to make the fuel curve very flat and leaned out the secondaries.
Threw a point distributor in, along with a home made air cleaner. All the tricks we used to do to our stock cars...it's been a good truck.
A/C stopped working a while back, as did the heater and wipers....and Dad just kept on driving it.
I did a tune up and adjustments, Pop had already pulled the evaporator case, installed a new heater core, repaired the damaged orifice tube, and installed a new blower motor.
We stopped about mid-day yesterday because he wanted to load up some .380 for one of his pistols...so we spent some time at the reloading bench.
Spent some time digging up some pieces of obsidian for Quinten out in the pasture...then my two oldest sons came over, so we watched some movies as a family.
It's been a nice weekend. Got one A/C line to repair and I think we will be done.
I will post some pics in a little bit....
His '77 had a 6.2 litre diesel in it for years, then a 6.5 litre for a while. About 15 years ago, Pop decided he wanted a gasoline motor.
I had a 307 that I gave him, with a pair of 305 HO heads that had new guides and stock springs. The motor only needed rings and bearings, and I had a 327/300 camshaft and lifters that I gave him, along with a big block oil pump. We also found a serpentine setup from a newer Chevy truck laying around. Cheap!!!
Pop wanted a carburetor and points for reliability. I built him a Quadrajet with .037" idle tubes and .034" idle channel restrictions, so you have a greater degree of adjustability over the idle, where a stock Q-Jet's mixture needles only give you more or less of a preset mixture. I changed all the air bleeds to make the fuel curve very flat and leaned out the secondaries.
Threw a point distributor in, along with a home made air cleaner. All the tricks we used to do to our stock cars...it's been a good truck.
A/C stopped working a while back, as did the heater and wipers....and Dad just kept on driving it.
I did a tune up and adjustments, Pop had already pulled the evaporator case, installed a new heater core, repaired the damaged orifice tube, and installed a new blower motor.
We stopped about mid-day yesterday because he wanted to load up some .380 for one of his pistols...so we spent some time at the reloading bench.
Spent some time digging up some pieces of obsidian for Quinten out in the pasture...then my two oldest sons came over, so we watched some movies as a family.
It's been a nice weekend. Got one A/C line to repair and I think we will be done.
I will post some pics in a little bit....
