1969 Imperial progress thread

[detmatt]

I think the weather has at least a little to do with it. I've been told by a few of these car haulers that they try to stay busy where the weather is a little more mild.

 

[vdk2010]

Thats all the small things you don't know when you do things the first time... But I'm learning from all that for the future!
I think you're right with that, Matt. One time I called them the other day, they told me they can't work during the shitty weather two weeks ago and now they have to catch up with all the pent-up work...

Sometimes you lose, sometimes the others win... ixie:

 

[detmatt]

And now were smack in the middle of two more polar vortexes.....

 

[commando1]

Maybe all the trucks are at the auctions.

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[70bigblockdodge]

I think more appropriate is "sometimes your the pigeon sometimes your the statue"

 

[commando1]

I feel for you, Vodka, but I'd STILL be on the phone with one hand to your broker and on the phone in the other hand looking for your own trucker hungry for fuel money.
Somewhere in the fine print, you can find a way the broker hasn't fulfilled his end of the contract. Even if he uses the old "...and acts of God" clause.

 

[vdk2010]

I call them tomorrow again to find a solution... :silent:

Dan send me two pics of the carb today.



Compared with the pictures in the service manual, it looks like the Holley 4160.

 

[detmatt]

Do we know how many miles are on the clock on this car?

 

[vdk2010]

We do. It have 43,635 miles on the clock.

 

[vdk2010]

Can anyone see the defference of these two kits?


http://www.holley.com/37-754.asp
http://www.summitracing.com/dom/parts/hly-37-754/overview/

or

http://www.holley.com/37-119.asp
http://www.summitracing.com/dom/parts/hly-37-119/overview/

Vodka with your stock carb I would give it a shot (rebuild it) if it runs good/great nothing wrong with that, also from a picture previously with float the one pictured is a center hung you will need side hung for your carb if you need one at all.

You are right, the service manual show the side hung float.
http://www.summitracing.com/dom/parts/hly-116-4/overview/

 

[polara71]

And now were smack in the middle of two more polar vortexes.....

I have never heard that term until this year. All over the weather..

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Looks untouched I think you will be okay as long as throttle shafts move bowl screws are not chewed up from messing or overtightening I would just plan on using that stock carb. Has divorced choke and settings are proper.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

The 754 number is for a 4150, the 119 is a 4160 which is what you have. Besides a gasket or two the only difference is O-rings for fuel supply tube on drivers side, the4150 uses a dual feed line on pass side and the center hung floats

 

[70bigblockdodge]

I have never heard that term until this year. All over the weather..

I'm 47 and 2013-14 is the first I've heard of polar vortex and we got 2 this winter. I'm going to start making up new names for stuff in the trucking industry like its no longer a fuel tank I'm calling it a "potential energy vessel" everybody feel free to make up new names for stuff in your chosen field.

 

[vdk2010]

The 754 number is for a 4150, the 119 is a 4160 which is what you have. Besides a gasket or two the only difference is O-rings for fuel supply tube on drivers side, the4150 uses a dual feed line on pass side and the center hung floats

This is confusing me because the Holley list says they are both for the 4160, but I will take the 119 kit then.

 

[polara71]

I'm 47 and 2013-14 is the first I've heard of polar vortex and we got 2 this winter. I'm going to start making up new names for stuff in the trucking industry like its no longer a fuel tank I'm calling it a "potential energy vessel" everybody feel free to make up new names for stuff in your chosen field.

When I was 18 I wasnt a gas attendant, I was a petroleum transfer engineer ............... it never took

 

[bluefury361]

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Dan send me two pics of the carb today.

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Julian,
My experience with those old Holleys is that it will look just as bad on the inside. Jazebelle came with the same carb and wouldn't run right. I put two kits in it and soaked it in carb cleaner with poor results. It looked like the inner metal surfaces of the carb were turning to a powder.
I installed a edelbrock 1407 w/electric choke and never had to turn a screw. It woke the 440 up nicely.

 

[cm23uoc]

Rarely had troubles with carbs in general when leaded fuel was still available, just recently opened a used one I had decades in storage that looked pretty clean in the bowl area. With carbs used with unleaded/ethanol content you often find this white powder that messes up your bypasses and jets; needs some real long soaking, best for a couple of weeks and even then I had to open one bypass hole with a very thin wire with one two barrel carb, after two tries.

 

[vdk2010]

Now I have a balanced number of pro and contra ;)

But I think I will try to rebuild the holley carb. It's worth a try.

 

[vdk2010]

Look at that uh, I love my car!

I hope, asap in my patio!