I just finished my rochester carb rebuild on my 69. She purrs like a kitten now. I will begin my intensive testing this week after a complete fluids change. Anyone have an opinion on types of oil weight for the engine, tranny and axles?

Fudd, any luck with your carb problems?

Jason

69' Patrol
3 speed, I-6
"Topless"

Hey dude....my carb was still giving me probs when I last messed with it. I have been out of the country and haven't messed with it since my last post. I need to check timing again and clean the tank and lines before I can get rid of a few possiblities. What did you set your float at in the Rochester? How about your adjustments, where did you set them?

In my red 66 I put all Amsoil synthetic and it seem to like it a lot.

Hi Ian,

Good to hear that you are back online. Well the deal with my Carb, I would not say that my carb is tuned in perfect; however, it runs smoothly and seems to warm up rather well. About the float, without looking at the paperwork in the rebuild kit again(I'm trying to find it) I can't tell you what I set it to. But I recall taking the flaot numbers for the inline Chevy 6 cylinder engines from the 60's. I found that I had to adjust the float a little bit. That might be my problem as to why it is not tuned in perfect. I seem to be getting rough gas milage. I estimate about 10 mpg at 7000 feet. Do you think that sounds resonable?

69' Patrol
3 speed, I-6
"Topless"

well...milage I think depends on several things, age of engine, wear on engine, mileage on engine, carb, possibly oil in diffs/tranny and tire pressure. I think 10mpg is fairly decent for a Patrol, good would be in the 12-14 range and best possible with rebuilt engine and all ios probily 15-16mpg. Most of my Patrols are getting 9-12mpg.

I set my carb to the same Chevy specs it said in the specs sheet. My prob with it is that I can't lean it down enough to how an idle, it just seems to want to run to rich and then it fouls the plugs. I still haven't checked timing but that could be it or I could now have some rust junk back in the carb. Just a bit cold right now to work on a rig outside....