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Would an '89 K30 C&C have a carburator?

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Question for the stats guys out there (that's you, @82355). Would a 1989 K30 dually crewcab C&C model with a 454 have a carburetor originally? I was thinking that everything of that era had EFI, Facebook disagrees.

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I've seen a few canadian built trucks that had carbs long after the USA went EFI,that the owners bought new in Canada...also saw a few during the late 70's with points that were still used on many Canadian trucks too,no HEI, EGR,and just a PCV valve for emission control..

My bet is the truck has had an engine swap or someone ditched the EFI though...
 
campfire said:
Question for the stats guys out there (that's you, @82355). Would a 1989 K30 dually crewcab C&C model with a 454 have a carburetor originally? I was thinking that everything of that era had EFI, Facebook disagrees.

:popcorn:
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Parts manual lists carbs at least up until 1988 in the R/V series in some applications, but I'm not looking at it to know for sure what the RPO was, to know if it made it to 1989.

Do you have an engine RPO? Quick search online looks like RPO LE8 would be a carbed 454 up to 1989.
 
diesel4me said:
I've seen a few canadian built trucks that had carbs long after the USA went EFI,that the owners bought new in Canada...also saw a few during the late 70's with points that were still used on many Canadian trucks too,no HEI, EGR,and just a PCV valve for emission control..

My bet is the truck has had an engine swap or someone ditched the EFI though...
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No way any Canadian truck kept points or carb's longer than US trucks. All of our emissions crap as well as safety crap is adopted cart blanche. By '75 everything was electronic ignition...
 
1989 was the last year for a carbureted 454 in a R/V3500.

I have seen a SPID with an HEI delete RPO.

Martin
 
No problem.

Note they are fairly rare. The majority had TBI.

Martin
 
tRustyK5 said:
No way any Canadian truck kept points or carb's longer than US trucks. All of our emissions crap as well as safety crap is adopted cart blanche. By '75 everything was electronic ignition...
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Thats what I always thought too--the trucks I saw pulled into the parts store I worked at,the owner requested plugs,points,and condensor--he got pissed and said "My truck HAS points"..

I told him GM stopped using them after 1974,and he said "come see for yourself"...
He opened the hood,sure enough,it had a points distributor,no EGR,and only a PVC valve..(It may have been a one ton truck too,I cant recall)..

He insisted he owned the truck from day one,and had this argument every time he went to buy parts for it..

I said it was probably not original,someone either swapped an older engine in it,or put the points distributor in it and "deleted" any other emission equipment,but he was adamant he was right...:dunno:
My boss said do not argue with him--SELL him what he wants!..:doah:

I wrote that truck off as a fluke..

A few months later another canadian built truck came in,that had the same setup on its 350...not saying your wrong,just telling you what I ran into...maybe they were some high GVW emission exempt trucks?..

Another weird GM I saw at a gas station was a 1976 Monte Carlo they were fixing..the mechanic said "hey Bob,your a GM man--come check this engine out--ever see this before ?."..

I peek under the hood,and saw a 305 or 350,with a strange dual 2 barrel intake,two Rochester 2GC carbs mounted diagonally across from each other,with dual factory air cleaners !...looked completely factory,the intake and engine were the same color,intake was cast iron too,not aluminum...had a factory looking progressive linkage on the carbs..

Mechanic said he'd never seen anything like it either--and the owner of the car insisted GM tried buying the car back from him,told him he HAD too,and they would give him anything of equal value as a replacement..
They said it was some "experimental" design ,that was not supposed to be released to the public...supposedly when he refused,GM threatened to take him to court ....don't know how that ever turned out!..he also claimed the car got over 20 mpg often,but would "boot and scoot" when you floored it..evidently GM was not impressed with the setup,as it never went into production..
 
There's another member here who "taught" me about some R/V-series 1 tons that came factory with carbs and the '85-'86 year transfer case crossmembers all of which were determined by the VIN. He's the one who's selling stuff in the FS forums. Can't remember his username right off the bat without looking. I saw a crew cab on eBay not long after that and it also had a carb so I messaged the seller and asked for a shot of the t-case and crossmember. Sure enough it came out exactly like the '85 and '86 'members. I think the VIN digit/letter was something like a W or whatever. And now while I was just typing this the members username came back to my head: Gonic, GonicGM or something like that. He would know and can tell you in better detail.
 
Yes, I have personally seen a few, both reg cab & crew cab (cab & chassis) narrow dually 89 models with factory carbs.
If memory serves me right they were also over the standard 10,000 gvwr.
 
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