your oil pressure is ok if it is at 30 when hot. If when you say tailpipe is black.....do you mean they are blue on the OUTSIDE of the pipe? Where do they exit....side of truck or rear? Blue can be normal up towards the engine.........but not at the ends of the tips.
Take a valve cover off...
ZIG........LOVE the tractor comment. He sounds like the kind of guy that would have me stopping by at his house unannounced...........after dark.........with my tractor........better yet, with my friends 64,000lb tractor..........
Thanks for that link Drabo............
No offense to anyone..........but I did not even consider that a company would take the time to offer a conversion for those old sixes. Until this CP forum, did not know that so many guys 'like' the sixes. I took mine out for the added towing capacity of...
Use 3 people to do it. One on each side to hold hood in position and a third to put the bolts in. If the hood had never been adjusted before, you should be able to see the marks left from the flat washers and hood bolts, that are pressed into the hinges, and you can get lucky tightening the...
You will need to go with a later model 6 cyl. The bellhousings are different. I may be wrong, but I don't think they even offered an auto with a 6 in '62.
Normally yes, you should sometimes see steam out the exhaust if a head gasket or head crack...and if bad enough it will start running on 7 cylinders. Pull the dipstick and see if that is brown too.
Check your fuse panel. I had a problem with mine. The fuses were good but the contacts in...
If you go with a good quadrajet and keep your foot out of it............you should get better mileage than the larger primary 2bbl. Keep in mind your cam lobes are for a 2bbl too. You will get a boost in performance still.
Well, lets see. It is a very cool idea.........a 'new' old truck. Nice to see someone try what the rest of us would love to...........design and build a 'new' old vehicle..but with updated features. I see they went with Ford for the obvious....Ford is willing to supply the hobby market much...
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