I picked up a straight little little D100 shortbed with the slant 6 gas engine in a package deal with a D150 parts truck I needed for the Cummins projects. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it but it's a 4 speed floor mounted manual tranny shortbed with nicely faded paint and very little rust so I bought it.
I was told it will start and run but needs carb work, I haven't bothered with it since it was towed to the house a few weeks ago. I put in a good battery and cranked it over and got a small fireball out of the carb and some small lingering flames from the carb after it shut down. It appears to me I've got spark with valves open versus a carb issue, unless I'm way off base. I saw this on a Vette once when I let a guy put the distributor in when I was setting the valves and he didn't notice the spiral gear on the distributor shaft. Much bigger fireball that time.
Based on the big Electronic Ignition System decal on the air cleaner this D100 should not have points and base timing via the distributor? The previous owner has the air cleaner assembly removed. The electrical connection to whatever is on the air cleaner is disconnected and all the vacuum lines on the entire engine are capped off, and there are a lot of them. I'm assuming that it needs the electrical cable, air cleaner, and vacuum lines reconnected before it can sort out the timing? It has most of a vacuum diagram on the fenderwell so I can probably recreate what should be there.
Anybody know much about that era of Dodge/Chrysler electronic ignition systems and how dependent they are on the vacuum input etc? Any other ideas on how to avoid the fireball?
TIA
Joe