What did you do to YOUR bump today?

[Racer Z]

Sunday's test drive failed.  The motor pinged at light acceleration.  My brother has more test equipment than I and he helped find what's going on.  The vacuum advance is going to 40 degrees at part throttle instead of 15.  Ping, ping, ping.  The adjustment for the vacuum portion didn't work so we disconnected the the vacuum and plugged the port.  With the vacuum connected the timing was bouncing at higher RPM.  With the vacuum disconnected the timing is stable at higher RPM.

Now she (or he) runs!!!  Better than ever before!!!

Today I ordered a new vacuum advance unit from Autozone for twenty buck plus tax.

[390bump]

Replaced power steering pump. Screeching is gone    Bought a Cardone pump from Oreillys - good pump! Think previous one was bad but also wrong pump (pressure too high). Was another piece of junk supplied by Dans Ford truck parts (no longer on Ebay).

[tmcalavy]

Cleaned ground strap connections, replaced one ground strap. Traced stalling issue to bad condensor, replaced it and chunked old faulty condensor into neighbor's yard who always complains about my dog's toilet habits.

[67fordman1]

Thats just funny, right there! If your neighbor hits it with his mower , tell him your dog must have ate it!

[Racer Z]

Cleaned ground strap connections, replaced one ground strap. Traced stalling issue to bad condensor, replaced it and chunked old faulty condensor into neighbor's yard who always complains about my dog's toilet habits.

Thats just funny, right there! If your neighbor hits it with his mower , tell him your dog must have ate it!

Ha ha. Too funny.

[Racer Z]

Today I installed my new vacuum advance unit. Adjusted the vacuum advance curve by ear and it drives better without pinging. Sunday I will have access to the proper tools to fine tune it, but for now it's good.

Last night I picked up yet another Datsun motor/tranny with my Bump. Like I really need another dead motor. If the Datsun forum had a thread like this I'd have a lot more to say. Hmm, maybe I should start one there? Anyway, I'm using my Bump to haul dead Datsun motors around.

[Green Steel Ranger]

Installed Delta toolbox, Hi-Lift Jack, spare w/ matching wheel and center caps for Alcoa wheels.

[tmcalavy]

Warmed up the 69, checked tire pressure, tuned carb with vac guage...went for a spin...10 mpg around town, 12 mpg down the highway...wish I could find a job to feed this beast.

[tmcalavy]

Cleaned, sidegapped, indexed and installed an old set of Autolite 45 plugs this morning...runs even smoother/quieter...next mpg check in progress.

[jp2005]

Radiator Flush,Wash and drive it to work.

[Racer Z]

Today, I was able to drive my truck home.

The longer version is:
I drove out to my brothers early in the morning to work on the racer, knowing I was going to fine tune my distributor and vacuum advance first. About two block away, Daryl (that's the name of my truck) started acting up again. (Yes, Daryl is a problem child.) Somehow I made it to my brothers, barely.

So we took his Chevy instead of my Ford to Harbor Freight so I could buy a truck crane. Along the way I saw three Bumps and two Dents, all active work trucks and all in good looking condition.

Farted around with my truck all morning trying to find out what's wrong. I finally went on a wild goose chase (in the Chevy) to buy a rebuilt distributor. Finally found one and a new coil to boot. Installed my new distributor and coil, set the points gap and static timed it. Daryl fired right up and purred like a kitten. My truck has NEVER idled that good!!!!!! Let it warm up, checked the dwell and set the timing. Checked the vacuum advance and found it has 12 degrees of vacuum advance just like the book says.

Cleaned up and it was time to drive over the hill and back home again. She (not really sure why, but Daryl is a girl) starts up in half a turn now instead of, oh a few minutes of cranking. Shuts off without dieseling. No more random ping ping ping. And, the hesitation is gone when accelerating from a stop or rolling start. I had suspected the carburetor as being the cause of some of these symptoms.

Did the hour drive home with the radio off and listened to my motor purr.

[colnago]

The only thing I did was to remove the non-working air conditioning system.  Wow, but I have a TON of room in the engine compartment now!  Makes me wonder how big a block I can put in that engine compartment now ...  

Joseph

[390bump]

Nice weather so washed the bump:


Washed the other Ford too:

[basshound71]

Finally got the chance to get my tires mounted on the rims and put them on the truck after getting the rearend re mounted to the leaf springs after the overload spring removal about 2 mths ago. Came out really good. There is a 1/2" difference between the front and rear fender lip with 255/70- 15 on the back and 215/ 70-15 on the front.

[tmcalavy]

Nice weather so washed the bump:
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Washed the other Ford too:
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Sweet...what year bump is that?
Managed to find 2 stock 16-inch steel wheels yesterday...off an 80's F350. Had my spares mounted and put in the bed...then I had to switch to plumbing repair, which suprisingly turned out okay.