Gary Lewis

Yes, there's a small orifice in the carb that provides a little vacuum to the port where the tubing fits. The intent is that you'll have a line from the clean side of the air cleaner, down to the exhaust, and then back to that port. The vacuum pulls the hot air across the bi-metallic spring.

Welcome! Where's home? We have a member's map (Bullnose Forum/Member's Map in the menu) and I'd be happy to add you to it. And Steve is right, we need to see pictures! How to do that is in Bullnose Forum/Forum FAQ's.

Moab looks to have some challenging parts. And on Poison Spider it didn't take long to find one. I think your decision was wise. I love Lesley's shirt! That's cool! On the steep descent, why would it have been easier in a longer vehicle? Or did I misunderstand? On the short steep descent, which bumper would drag? Anyway, it looks like you two had a great day despite the initial "bump" in the road.

Bob - I'm thinking there are two kinds of trips. The first is to stay in a hotel, run the trails by day, and clean up by night. The second is to take your time overlanding and stop where you are, in the middle of nowhere, to spend the night. To me, Moab and Ouray are the former, and the north rim of the canyon is the latter.

I'll have a skid plate on the 38 gallon Bronco tank as Dad's truck had a skid plate and I don't see that one needing it. So I'll put it on Big Blue, although it'll obviously have to be spaced down teeny a bit. And if the bumper drags it won't hurt it much - assuming I get that bumper built. Are there hotels in town? On some of our to-be trips we'll camp wherever we get, but might want to stay in a hotel there.

Sorry, I forgot this one. Yes, the tach and the trip odometer came together as part of that package. You can use either by itself, but they were a pair.

Gary, I don't think anything is touching anywhere. Engine mounts were new when I installed the rebuilt engine last year...nothing special...they're just the parts store ones. I pulled the front four plugs tonight and I think they all look ok? Maybe have about 3500-4000 miles on them. The plugs look fine, although the mix might be a touch lean. Do you have EGR? If so, do you know if it is coming in? If not, has your dizzy been tuned to account for the lack of it?

Gary, I told Lesley what you said about Janey on this trail. Lesley said: I'm not saying Janey would be excited to go on that fin! And we need to keep in mind that Lesley has been doing this with me for 29 years now, so her willingness doesn't necessarily translate to a newcomer to fourwheeling. But Lesley isn't the most daring trail rider and that was her input. So I thought I'd share it. Bob - Perhaps if we do the Ouray trails with no problems, and then move up to Moab and make that our last day it would work. But Janey isn't one to do daring things in a vehicle. And without the experience Lesley has she'd have to work up to that one. However, I think that's more in line with something I might do with our son. It fits right in with lots of things he wants to do, so either way I may get to do it.

I wouldn't think you'd be able to feel any vibration from the cam after maybe 1200 RPM or so. Are the engine mounts good? Is the shift lever possibly touching something? An exhaust pipe touching the frame?

Looking great, Dave! And you are getting so much done. I'm jealous! You are going to beat me on getting Big Blue back on the road, much less Dad's truck.

I think it is that the originals were designed to have that look. We were used to seeing two-toned paint jobs and the trucks had breaks where the colors changed. Today's trucks are much more round and there's no crisp break where they are changing the color. It just doesn't work the same.

Well, if that "fin" is right at the start, Janey isn't going. (I haven't shown her the pic, but after 50 years you kinda start understanding how the other person thinks.) She MIGHT let me, but there's not a chance she is going to ride over it. And several of the shots of your Bronco make things look STEEP. I'll take your word for the traction, especially if that guy broke a D60's u-joint. But I'd need to get more experience before I tackled much of Hell's Revenge. But wow, those are cool pics! My nephew had similar ones from when they took the RZR's earlier this year. I'm looking forward to more pics and more writeups. I do hope at least my son and I can go.

Ray - Some of the chokes did have a ground stud that has a wire to the carb itself. 4 bbbl Carters/Edelbrocks do. But illustration of the YF doesn't show one. Check the bi-metallic coil to see if it works by setting the choke cap aside and letting it get to room temp. Then mark where the hooked end of the coil is and hold it over something hot. The end should move. And with the cap off check that the linkage works the choke smoothly. It may be binding.

I have a '90 bumper in my way in the shop. Wish I could get it to you for free. But it probably is bent as well.

I've never looked! I have some in a bag in the shop. Maybe I can check them after church.

I can't explain any of that. But don't miss that my pic in the previous post is technically a different one than in the earlier post. It comes from the same original but has fewer things done to it. Anyway, how and why things change on subsequent viewing I do not know. I wonder if there's some compression going on somewhere that varies by the speed of the connection.

Yippeeeeee!!!! Looking good! Red & white looks way better on a Bullnose than a 2019 F150.

Bill - That's amazing. And disappointing. Reminds me of 1969. Probably June thereof. A friend of mine and I were sharing an apartment before we both got married in July and August, respectively. He was driving an Opel Kadett, and when he pulled up to the apartment and got out he forgot to put the e-brake on. It rolled gently into a corrugated trash can and the bumper bent more than the can did.

Yes! That's exactly what my blue LED's look like, and I MUCH prefer the Ice Blue. And you are 100% right on testing before re-installing the cluster and bezel. Almost for sure you'll have some not working.

Yipes! You pushed the bumper in? Your frame has the brackets on the side, right? Did the bumper bend or did one of the brackets? Stainless hanger? I've read about them, but haven't seen them. Post a pic when you do it, please.

Please be precise. ;) You want to *copy* and then fix the *copy*, leaving the original site intact. To *move* a site implies deleting the original source, i.e. only one version remaining. Regardless, I would copy whenever possible, using the original site as a reference. Themes are written independently by several authors, I don't expect theme-specific features to migrate over well at all... (I think I said that already). Swap DNS when you're ready to turn on your new site, simple as that. Chris - You are right, I didn't use the right term as we certainly didn't "move" the site as all of the pages are still on Weebly. But I'm not sure "copy" is quite right either as they didn't come across the same. At least not all of them did. Perhaps "convert" is a better term. In any event, we think we have 100% of the Weebly-created & hosted pages up on Wordpress. But there are differences, with widgets not having converted well, if at all. In any event, we are playing around with it to see what works and what doesn't, tweak what we can, fix broken links, etc. Basically just to get our arms around what the issues are. But I still plan to talk to WPBeginner tomorrow to see if they think they can do a better job themselves than what we've done with their tool. If so I'll probably give them the go-ahead to convert it and put it on a Bluehost site. They don't charge for the conversion if we go with one of their partners, and Bluehost is and has excellent pricing. However, we won't truly be swapping the DNS. We have a new URL, bullnosebible, and we'll do re-directs to take people to the new site instead of the old. As for performance, from what I've seen the same things load at the same speed on Wordpress as on Weebly. And since we probably won't be changing things the initial user experience will be pretty much the same. But we then need to consider where files are hosted so we can get Google to crawl them, and at that time we'll also need to do the fair testing you mentioned - with a clear cache. Good point. I've read that Google has a plugin that integrates Google Drive with Wordpress, and we could consider doing that if it would be faster and get the pages crawled. But that's down the road a bit when things are working and we are ready to move on. And there are plenty of backup plugins as well. A review I read shows some to be either inexpensive or free and provide the features I think we need, like backing up at given times and dates, backing up on any change, incremental backups, etc. Anyway, things are moving and it looks like we'll get there. Plus, some things will be better on the new site. For instance, this is being typed via the test site, and I just realized that the window into which I'm typing is noticeably wider than on Weebly. In fact, I just went back to the Weebly view of the forum and started a reply and the editing window is certainly smaller. I think that's due to some custom CSS I installed on the Wordpress site last night that uses 95% of the available width for the "container".

Cory - Its is really difficult to get accurate pics like that with an iPhone. Or any other automagic camera. The camera adjusts for the brightness, so differing levels of brightness look the same. Anyway, those gauges look great! And in my limited experience it is rare you want to turn the brightness down. We went to great lengths to add adjustability to David's truck when he changed to LED and he didn't need it.

Jim - I'd wondered if your backup lights were still working fine. Need to add some to Big Blue when the time comes, so thought of yours. Glad you got both sets working again. How's the fuel situation?

Bingo! This is exactly what it was, I had the hose on backwards. I forced it together after fighting with it for at least 2 weekends now, decided it was too much work to drop the tank and fix, told myself I'll fix it when I replace the body (a project in the future). Until I started to pour gas in it, I got about a quart into it before it spat back pretty badly. So I dropped & reinstalled the tank 3 different times + 2 trips to the hardware store (to replace lost or damaged hardware) before I finally got that installation finished. Sheesh, you'd think I'd learn after a while. ;) One of the ways of forcing it together was to unscrew the filler tube assembly from the body, give it some free play: Also, the material I used as a replacement buffer to prevent metal-to-metal abrasion did better with some lubrication, I used dish soap: That stuff is some sort of mudflap-type of material used near the headlights & wiring, I found it in the junkyard and decided it would do. It's glued on with something called The Amazing Goop, this looks to be good stuff. The factory used some sort of fireproof asbestos-type of stuff that isn't readily available in today's market. Probably won't work on the truck tomorrow, gonna watch my sister & good friend race at the dragstrip. :) Another layer of the onion peeled! So, with the new tank in you can clean the fuel system, inc the carb, and I'll bet the engine likes it.

Yippee!!! That is SERIOUS progress. Can't wait to see the pics. And, good job on the idle problem. Now you know what the issue is it should be easy to solve when the time is right.