I rebuilt the carburetor today. I used a ton of carb cleaner so I have a squeaky clean carburetor. It is really amazing how that stuff cuts through grease and varnish. It is so powerful I am pretty sure that I have given myself some strange kind of cancer just being around it.
Only problem: the base gasket that I bought does not fit my carb so I have the old base gasket on the carb.
The truck started up again and will run at a nice idle with the choke 1/2 way closed. It still dies if we put the choke all the way in.
Just to see what would happen, we used reverse to back up the truck about 3 feet and then 1st to move it forward again. So the truck is capable of moving under its own power. At one point, my inability to engage the clutch and the slope of our garage seriously threatened Sharon's car parked in the drive way. She moved both cars and I was able to drive the truck forward, back into the garage. Disaster averted!
Now that we can get the truck idling fairly steadily, I will attempt to tune the timing and valves and see if that affects the truck not running with the choke open.
All that will have to wait until next weekend though as I am flying out on business tomorrow :-(
Tracking the progress (or lack thereof) of the Underwood family's attempt to repair, rebuild and slightly restore their 1954 Chevy 3100 1/2 ton pick-up.
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I've got a timing meter if you want it for next weekend.
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