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87 mix and match chevy build...It's back to life!

Well slap me silly and call me sally sam. I think I might have found my DW problem. Had a friend come over and help me out in trying to find something. Apparently the gear box that I swapped in has way too much play in the splined shaft, so I'll be buying a remaned one soon. The draglink needs to be replaced entirely. My friend also confirmed that the tires are a big part of the DW but he is gonna take me to a place that will mount my 38 swampers on my 16x8 rims for 10 bucks apiece. Lady luck willing this dam thing will be running and driving in the next few months! Depending on how quickly my neck heals.
 
Update

FINALLY my DW is gone! :flipoff10: I swapped out steering boxes and sure as hell it went away! I still need to tinker and adjust some things but overall I'm dam impressed. She's also extremely loud when I hit the kickdown point. On a side note the 700r4 seems to be liking the abuse from the 468, we shall see.:pimp:
 
Hell yah dude! I bet that baby rips! Now go waste some gasoline and give your right foot a few orgasms :whistle:
 
So I found out i have to redo my fuel lines and add a regulator along with a wood spacer. My fuel is getting way too hot before it hits the carb and I'm having issue's with it being hard to start when it's warm. I also need to rebuild the carb. Thankfully though this is all small stuff and I can still drive it around at dusk.

I still have to hunt down that electrical gremlin and kick him out. If i can't find it I'm going to blame this on Fordum's squirrels. :D

Hopefully we get rain today and if we do I'm going to find some mud!
 
Do you have a return line hooked up? I had the same problem. My pump didnt have a return barb on it so the po just capped it off. My gas was getting real hot at idle just sitting there as the carb would only allow a small amount past the needles. But at open throttle down the road it would clear out allowing fresh cool fuel to come in. An old mopar guy i know (guy that built my tranny) came over with an old chrysler fuel filter that has a return barb in it. Hooked it up, and now at idle when the pumps trying to force gas into the carb the extra goes out the return (some sort of built in check valve that closes when the carb asks for more fuel) instead of it sitting there getting hot, so cold fuel is constantly coming in. Worked perfect and no more vapor lock! If you ran a bypass regulator, i beleive it does the same thing, but this was cheap and works great!
 
Can you get a pic of the fuel filter your talking about? And no I don't have a return line, I just looked.

The truck doesn't vapor lock, she just doesn't like to start up right away but she will start.
 
What I read into it is, the carb is heat sinking when the engine is shut off. The fuel boils over into the intake. When he starts it, it is loaded up. If it sits till it cools, the fuel evaporates out of the intake. So it stars fine.

I have seen it on a lot of engines. There is a thin heat shield/dissapator that used to be on the 70's era engines. They go below the carb. Work really well.

Fuel inject it. Then you can have a completely different set of problems.
 
Get a .25" thick C60 holley gasket to put under that pile of crap edelbrock.
 
I swapped out my tbi for this setup. I honestly dont have the urge to fuel inject it at this point. She's gonna be a street queen for awhile until I can get some things buttoned up. I did leave all the FI wires in place though and the harness wasn't hacked when I did the swap so theoretically I can put the tbi back on it maybe. I say maybe as I haven't looked to see if my cam is tbi compatible.

Ultimately my plans are to put a 1" wood spacer, hook up a fuel return line, fuel regulator, re-route my fuel lines away from the motor, re-time it and gap my plugs a bit wider.
 
Your cam should be with those tiny peanut ports, they run out of air a 4500 so getting cam for anymore is just a waste of money. Plus with the 7.8-8 to one compression you have you can't afford to let out too much of that cylinder pressure.
 
My engine used to vapor lock sometimes during the summer. It would usually happen after I first fired it up or when I was going pretty slow. I always thought that the fuel lines were getting too hot from the heat of the enigine and making the gasoline evaporate before it could reach the carb. I think I had to reroute my fuel lines a little to get them away from the heat to make it quit stalling out. Been a few years so I don't remember what I did. I'll think about it and maybe it will come to me. I do remember that I would have to wait a few minutes before it would start up again. Really aggravating.
 
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