Recent content by 31pickup650

After a hiatus from working on the truck, I got it up on some jack stands and started looking at the brakes and front axle. There was a ton of play in the kingpins and also pretty poor wear on the brake drums. I took all that off and cut out the studs out. I’ll be rebuilding the brakes and...

While being at home a lot more now, I started doing some work on the truck for the first time since 2016 to get it running better. I started off last month getting a new battery and draining the gas from 2016 and cleaning out the carb. Surprisingly, the car started up fairly quickly. I fixed...

Yeah, the nut holding the u-joint was tight. I’ll look at the torque tube bearing next. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

https://youtu.be/KGXtCB5AoG8 This seems like way too much side to side play in the u-joint based on what I’ve seen with more modern parts. It is still pretty tight when purely twisting the u-joint. If this is normal, what’s the next spot to look for a driveline vibration that doesn’t seem to...

I did this and it worked great. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Alright, update on the situation. I gave it a pretty thorough Seafoam treatment and that seemed to help a little. It wasn't missing driving it in second gear down my little road like it did earlier. I decided to take it for a drive around and it did about as well as it did when I drove it a...

Yes, WOT. Poured some Seafoam into the gas. Hopefully that helps. Will idle it and maybe try again today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I forgot to have the other plugs out as I did the compression test. Re-did it and the results are slightly better, but still low: 46/44/36/46. Sorry about that. I guess overhaul of some kind might be in order.

The red wire off the + side of the ignition coil runs into the cab under the dash. Battery is connected + side to the chassis ground.

After looking at the ignition coil, the coil wire sheathing is pretty work out and breaking off in a couple spots. Maybe another issue? I will try to grab a video of the car running to maybe help diagnose.

The car wasn't running so well when I put it away. I may need to try some of the Seaform type stuff in the fuel. Pretty sure I have a can sitting around.

I drained out the old gas and cleaned out the carb and made sure everything was clear and didn't have any blockages. I have a 6 volt coil with a new 6 volt battery. For the coil, the side marked (-) has 6 v on my multimeter when I use the head as a ground. Is that correct for polarity...

I have been trying to get my A going again after a few years of sitting around. It ran okay in the fall of 2015, but the following spring/summer, it was having issues going up anything but flat road and I didn't have time to really work on it. I drove it up and down my road after getting it...

Nice pictures. Looks like a fun project.

Update: Re-did the line and shortened up the first section so it looks like msmaron's and then made one large radius smooth bend to the front of the Model B carb. I drained the fuel tank while doing this since there seemed to be a lot of crud in that tank of gas and it was kind of on the old...