65 Barracuda daily driver
The problem still persists. I checked for vacuum leaks and couldn't find any. I replaced all the plugs on the carb. When it's not starting, it's getting a good squirt at the carb when pulling on the throttle lever, but it evaporates before your eyes. When it does that I pulled a spark plug and they are dry, so flooding can't really be the problem. Thinking about making some sort of a heat shield, so the carb doesn't get so much heat from below.
I finally test fitted the pulleys on the 318 and unfortunately they don't line up 100% on the 318. The water pump pulley sticks out more by probably less than 1/16". Well, next weekend is the Mopar Spring Fling here in Southern California and I'll try my luck finding a matching pair.
I also started tearing apart that later model transmission and was able to pull out the part throttle kickdown!
Haven't been able to pull the input shaft yet, because I need a sliding hammer and the parts stores only have ones with a 5/8 thread and I need a 3/8-16. Harbor Freight has one for under 30 bucks (I got the trans for free...), but I went there today and they were closed for easter... Once I have the input shaft out, I can drop it off with the PTK and the '65 V8 A904 to get it rebuilt. To be continued...
The problem still persists. I checked for vacuum leaks and couldn't find any. I replaced all the plugs on the carb. When it's not starting, it's getting a good squirt at the carb when pulling on the throttle lever, but it evaporates before your eyes. When it does that I pulled a spark plug and they are dry, so flooding can't really be the problem. Thinking about making some sort of a heat shield, so the carb doesn't get so much heat from below.
I finally test fitted the pulleys on the 318 and unfortunately they don't line up 100% on the 318. The water pump pulley sticks out more by probably less than 1/16". Well, next weekend is the Mopar Spring Fling here in Southern California and I'll try my luck finding a matching pair.
I also started tearing apart that later model transmission and was able to pull out the part throttle kickdown!
Haven't been able to pull the input shaft yet, because I need a sliding hammer and the parts stores only have ones with a 5/8 thread and I need a 3/8-16. Harbor Freight has one for under 30 bucks (I got the trans for free...), but I went there today and they were closed for easter... Once I have the input shaft out, I can drop it off with the PTK and the '65 V8 A904 to get it rebuilt. To be continued...
