Working on cherry

[MuirR]

Cherry she's not, but my first... Old truck she is. I picked up a 77 long bed the other night. Barely drove, she spit and sputtered in gear and had trouble propelling herself down the road. I knew of this problem when I went to check it out, and had done some research. So I wasn't too worried, plus for just 500 bucks I figured why not.

Sou paid the man, and limped her home. Could do anything that night so I just wedged her into the shop and called it good. Next day I took a look at it, startin with vacuum leaks. I found the vacuum advance hose was hard and soft line stitched together. I didn't really have a good testing spray so I just guessed that was leaking at least some. So I "borrowed" the line off of my 85 Camaro as a test. Bam! It now idles in gear and drives down the road! Now the idle mixture screws don't do squat on my quadrajet so I figure there is more leak somewhere. Best guess right now is the vacuum diaphragm for the choke that is non-existent.

The p.o. said that the engine is a gm remanned unit (all blue) but I did notice that the intake says edelbrock on it. Any thoughts? Someone I would guess slapped it on and painted it to match.

It's a 350 with I believe a th350 though I have yet to actually confirm my suspicion.





Some sweet ghetto rigged buckets right there!