don't get me wrong, if i can get it running right with the fuel injection i will leave it, then all i have to do is paint it. i'm just looking at my options. not knowing this system i'm still in trouble shooting mode.

 

Yeah, anyone can do anything he wants anywhere. But some of those things are illegal (even if you get away with it for a little while), like deleting or disabling any factory-installed emissions controls (the entire fuel management system, for example) and then driving on any public road anywhere on this continent. Do people do it? Of course they do. Is it something you want to teach your grandson to do?You're kidding yourself. That's like claiming you can do math better with an adding machine than with a computer. Even an early computer.Then he doesn't seem to know much about it. It's simple, robust, & reliable.Yeah, you can't make ice cream with it, either. But that's not the point, is it? It wasn't designed to be hacked by shade-tree engineers - it was designed to run, and with the recommended maintenance & occasional repairs, it DOES. I have 5 of these trucks, and the only one that doesn't run perfectly is the one that I bent a valve in (which isn't as easy as it might sound! ). The one in my avatar has a million actual miles without a rebuild. How many carb engines have you ever encountered that will go 1/3 that far without being rebuilt? EFIs often do half a million or more.If you put a carb on it, you're right!That's what I'd be focused on - what's best FOR HIM. Yeah, you could teach him about an antiquated fuel-management system that he'll never need to know about & can't earn a living with in a vehicle he can't register in most places (and they're getting fewer every day); or you could show him the proper way to maintain what will likely be one of the biggest investments of time & money in his life, which WOULD be a good fallback occupation (or hobby) for him, since it's an industry that can never be outsourced to a Pakistani call center.An inexpensive 12V LED test light, or a specific "noid light" (which is also inexpensive).
It's just like testing the pulse to an ignition coil (whether pulsed by solid-state ignition, or by points).Most likely the penetration in the firewall where the heater core nipples are connected to the heater hoses. Rain runs down under the wiper valance, hits the nipples, and gets in through cracks in the dried-out sealant.

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sorry you feel that way. i know with a two plain aluminum intake, a holley carb and a set of headers and the fuel injection truck will not run with it. i've seen it done. now if it had a mustang injection setup then i would agree. last night we talked and we may be pulling the wimpy 302 which is really a 4.9 not a 5.0 and dropping a 351w with a holley street dominator intake and a holley carb 600cfm to start with a c4 trans. then this spring i can teach him how to play at the strip.

 

ok late last night i found a broke white plastic vacuum line. it goes under what i'm gonna call relays that set next to the coil. the pic i'm gonna use is someone else's but shows what i'm talking about. i know the leak has to be fixed but not sure what this does. the line i found broken goes under the front relay. what do these lines do? i wish i could put a arrow on it. it would be the first one to take a right turn as you look at the pic. not the two that double back.

 

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steve thanks for the post, i'll try on my phone later to see if i can enlarge them.

 

They'll always look better on a real computer using a real browser & a fullsize monitor.

 

i'm on a computer and they are about 1" x 1". i'll try to save em to try to enlarge em. they are to blurry.

 

You need to click the link, not the image.
The link opens a page with descriptions and image.

 

tried that and got file not found on both. that's the reason i said i'd try on my phone later.