1984 stepside 4x4

[warrpath4x4]

about a month ago the truck came up with a problem where I had to keep it half choked off just to be able to drive it. hooked up a transducer in the fuel line and took it for a drive to check fuel pressure under a load. at an idle this engine needs 4psi and at full throttle it needs about 9psi, I had 4 psi at an idle and clear down to 3.1psi at full throttle. it took me a month to finally get a day and weather to work on this, but.....




today I said good bye to the piece of junk fuel starver









and said hello to old reliable









I still had a little stumble when bumping the throttle so I went to adjust my carb set screws, and one had backed out like 3 turns (I had just adjusted it a month ago). little lock tite and we should be good there. all in all it runs and starts a lot easier now, don't have to crank it for a minute to get it to fire up.




also since I was at it, I installed my new tailgate hinges, I only had one in there and a bolt shoved in backwards on the other side. theres not that much gap normally, I had the gate shoved to one side.