Here are a few pics of my 65 F250 that the wife and I call Grace. The truck has a 352 / 4spd.
According to the PO, the truck had set for several years in a garage.
The PO had many issues trying to get it to run and fiddled with this truck for a while.
So I set out to figure out what was going on. Under the hood I found a fuel pressure regulator (I scratched my head at this one because with the factory style fuel pump putting out less than 6 psi I couldn't understand why he had put it on there) and 3 fuel filters. The amount of filters (I found out later) was because the tank had so much rust ans scale in it.
So, I started taking things off and put it back together stock. Well as soon as I did gas came rolling over the top of the carb. I thought "stuck float". So I pulled the carb and opened it up. Somewhere along the line the clip that hold the float had came loose. I cleaned the carb up, snapped in the clip, put it back together and tiny put it back on.
We started it up and it idles freakin awesome. And once I adjusted the fuel/air mixture the power, idle and rich running issues the truck had were all solved.
Also, the PO had told me he had issues with gas in the oil. and now I know why. The vacuum line for the advance was stuck on the metal line coming out the back of the carb at the top. When the float would stick, the fuel would go down this line, fill up the vacuum chamber of the advance (which needs replaced) and down into the distributor and into the crank case. All problems solved thanks to a clip. My wife quoted Stephen King "for the want of a nail, the kingdom was lost".
This is what she looked like when I brought her home:
This is her today:
Still needs a lot of work but she is a great daily driver.
