Bought a replacement truck

[meby]

I picked up an 84' w-250 4 spd tonight. Yeh, I know, its not a diesel. Most of my truck money got spent on a rented bull that went bat-sh*t crazy and went trotting around the county (I had to buy him). Long story. Anyway, i'll have to wait for a diesel until I can save up some more money. In the meantime I needed a truck for the farm. Its got the usual rust, but otherwise is in decent shape. I think I did okay at a $1000.00. I'll try and post a couple pics tomorrow.

The truck runs, but dogs pretty decent when I stomp on the petal. Is that a carb issue or would a good tune-up help?

[ellis93]

What kinda carb? If its a thermo quad,throw it away cause it could be your problem and is 100% garbage.

[meby]

What kinda carb? If its a thermo quad,throw it away cause it could be your problem and is 100% garbage.

2 barrel. Otherwise I don't know yet.

[ellis93]

Cool then you got a decent carb,I'd run some seafoam thru the gas before anything else. 1000$ trucks tend to have set for awhile before their found to be useless enough to be sold.

[meby]

Cool then you got a decent carb,I'd run some seafoam thru the gas before anything else. 1000$ trucks tend to have set for awhile before their found to be useless enough to be sold.

That funny.

I put in a can of seafoam and ran it some today. I also picked up a steering gear box, power steering pump and starter. The ps wasn't working in the truck. I thought I could run it that way for a bit, but holy cow, its impossible to turn with ps. I Promptly tore it apart when I got home and and broke the power steering lines and discovered the rag joint is squashy and that funny joint by the steering box is in terrible shape (not surprisingly). I might just wind up with a borgsen shaft before i'm done.

[dazedandconfused]

Where are the pics?

[RumbleFish]

Where are the pics?

[meby]

They're coming. Patience man, patience. Uploading to photobucket as we speak, so to speak.

[Tacoclaw]

Where are the pics?

[meby]

[meby]

okay. okay. happy?

[ellis93]

Did the munchkin under the bumper come complete with his own step stool? sorry had to,I've been told that several times cause I'm usually carrying a metal milk crate with me while walking toward a truck

[bmoeller]

Looking forward to getting a crew cab bought. Planning on running it with the gasser/4spd for a while, then doing the Cummins/5spd/4wd conversion.

[Tacoclaw]

Lose the running boards and I'd call that a truck.

Isn't it typically an accelerator pump problem if it lays down when the throttle is goosed? Does it get any better with the air filter pulled off?


I have no real idea on anything gasser anymore, but pulling the filter might tell you if it's leaning out or going rich when it lays down.

[bmoeller]

Could be the fuel pump too.