Gary Lewis

Welcome! My home state, Kansas. What part of it are you in? We have a member's map (Bullnose Forum/Member's Map in the menu) and I'd love to add you. And, if you are close come down for the show tomorrow in Skiatook. I'll put the flier below. Nice truck! I really would like to do a Bronco, and especially do it much like you have. Glad you joined.

Yes, it is a wonderful place! Check your email, btw.

Matthew, I want to have a look under your hood. Those symptoms are very familiar to me, as I had the same issues ~20-22 years ago. It was fueling issue... I resolved the issue, and had no more hot start issues over the next ~15 years. Glad you made it! I had actually just sent a text to Gary asking if he had heard anything further from you in regards to the rest of the trip. If you're free this afternoon, you're more than welcome to join us prior to the MPG test loop. I know I'll have a seat available.... Yes, as said in the email just now, please come on over early. David should be on the road and has an ETA of 3:00. Chris is on the road and Google says he should be here by 4:00, but in his case maybe by 6:00? Paul, come on when you want. I'm just getting things ready.

I was thinking “silly boy, it is raining”, then I got to the last line. 😉

Then use that testing procedure as best you can w/o the fancy tools. Don't miss the PIP that gives crank info.

The TFI ignition works very similarly to the DS-II ignition. There's a pickup module in the distributor, just like DS-II. The signal from it goes to the ECU instead of the DS-II module, and the ECU triggers the TFI coil that is very similar to the DS-II coil except it sits on the distributor instead of the engine. So I'd start by checking to see if you even have spark. Pull a plug wire and put an old plug in it and lay the plug against the engine. Crank the engine and watch for spark. I don't know if you have EEC-III or IV, but there's a very complex set of testing instructions for the IV here: http://www.garysgaragemahal.com/electronic-engine-control-eec.html. Perhaps they will help?

I do have DS-II modules, but I might set Matthew up with my stacked DS-II arrangement that's on Big Blue. When he's sporting EEC-V he won't need it, so someone might as well have it.

I doubt you can find a PCV valve that is set up to go to a hose. Don't think I've seen one, but maybe. Or you may get a PCV valve to go into a hose - I've not tried. But the best would be if your valve cover has a grommet in it where the breather valve is to put a PCV valve in the grommet. Then a hose to the back of the carb. And just having the breather on the other valve cover is fine. The vacuum from the carb will pull fresh air into the on the side with the breather cap and that air will go down through the sump and out the PCV valve taking oil fumes with it.

Shaun - As I was loading things onto the trailer and into the truck yesterday I thought "But, what if I have to go after someone?" Jim - Parts we got. If it is the ignition module I have him covered. But I'm not sure I have the pickup module - unless the one in the 460's dizzy is the same one....... nope.

That was the plan. But when you pick ones that aren't long enough to get on w/vice grips..... They now have slots.

I see that you did give me his email address. Thanks, Bill.

Oh no! Hope you make it in w/o another problem.

Ok guys, it is back down. Thanks. I'm really disappointed in what I've learned today from Weebly. See the new thread about possibly moving the website.

WE MAY HAVE TO MOVE THE WEBSITE. IF YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS PLEASE ADVISE! I've been working in the background with Weebly, the outfit that hosts the documentation portion of our website, because of some issues I've been seeing, including: The site is apparently too big for them to copy. Adding pages is becoming very onerous due to the # of pages we have - but we will need more. Backups take ~4 hours to download and frequently the download fails and has to be restarted. And today someone is playing around with things such that the embedded pages don't work, and we have hundreds of them Today I asked this on the Weebly support forum: Adam - Is my site too large, either page-wise or data-wise, for Weebly? To which Adam, a Weebly employee, said "That's very possible" With more than 500 pages I REALLY don't want to have to recreate them. So some form of migration tool appears to be needed. And so far all I've found is a tool to migrate Weebly to Wordpress. But I don't know much about Wordpress - do any of you? Anyone know of other options?

Yes, thanks Bill! I combine your two posts - not only do I use cut-off bolts to align a transmission to an engine, I also use them to align heads to blocks and intakes to heads. But, the slots on the ends for a screwdriver are critical. I've had things together and couldn't get the studs out since they didn't have the slots - yet.

Somewhere around 2:30 in this fly-over time zone someone at Weebly fixed what they'd broken. So, it appears to be back up and working. Please confirm.

Hard to tell from the pic, but if it is solid then great! So, you'd have two Bullnose trucks? IOW, you have "the addiction" like many of us? Welcome, brother!

Shaun - Thanks, I think. So what happens if you click either of those links: Open this in a new window, or Report this issue? I'm gobsmacked, to borrow a Briticism. I don't know what the issue is. But it appears that I can embed things from my OneDrive here although it no longer works on Weebly. Here's another to prove I can.

West Memphis in the rear view mirror is a good feeling. But now you have FLAT land until Crowley's Ridge. Rice fields. And the guy on the south side in a few miles with all the gas station signs.

You did not say which of the three EVTM's (1981, 1985, or 1986) you are referencing, but I'm going to guess that it is the '86 as pages 32 - 34 seem to match your question. I've copied the first page here to make reference easier. See in the middle-top where it says Ignition-EEC IV and directly below that it says See Electronic Engine Control. You need to go to that section of the EVTM.

Assuming you mean the Fenders And Aprons page, I think that's what I see.

Making good time!

Again, be REALLY careful! If you don't watch closely they'll put the later windshield in and since the mask for the VIN is in a different place you can't read the VIN. And that may/will bite you at some point.

Guys - I'm having a problem seeing the content on the Fasteners & Illustrations/Front Clip pages. On that page there are links to each of the pages below, like Fenders & Aprons, Hood, etc. And on each of those pages there should be an illustration that looks like the one below. But they are NOT coming up on my computer. Would you check it out and let me know what you find, please? And, what computer/device you are using?

I have both. I have a running excel file ready to go as well Assuming you are running Windows and have the file on your OneDrive, click the cloud icon in the lower right and click View Online. That brings up a browser tab with your OneDrive showing. Navigate to the file and click the radio button on it, then click Embed. (You might have to click the three dots ... to find Embed.) Then click Generate and copy the code that is created. Go to the post in which you want to embed it and tick the "Message is in HTML Format" box above the Quote button. Then paste the code into the edit window. If you've not played with HTML on here, line feeds don't work, so click the Formatting button and then the Line Feed button. But Excel is tricky to set up. Below the code that was generated on the OneDrive browser tab you'll have the option to Customize How This Embedded Workbook Will Appear To Others. (This is one reason I use more Word docs than Excel.) On that you get to set the range of cells you want displayed, which cell to be in when the page opens, etc. Have fun!