I had some friends help me set the timing on my truck today. It was 30 degrees off. Reset it to 6 before TDC. Runs and sounds much better but, I'm still fighting a hard acceleration problem. If you press too hard it will fall on it's face. Either hesitate, stall or pop through the carb.
I purchased a manufactured carburetor a few months ago and put it on without driving it and it seemed to idle fine at the time.
Only now that I'm trying to drive it I realize something is wrong.
Advance Auto Part list two carbs for a 1977 Dodge W200 with a 360 and automatic transmission.
United Carb Remanufactured Carburetor 2 Barrel
Part No. 5-5180
2BBL; Holley Fuel System; Automatic Trans.; Carb 2245, Light Duty
and
United Carb Remanufactured Carburetor 2 Barrel
Part No. 6-6264
2BBL; Holley Fuel System; Automatic Trans.; Carb 2245, Heavy Duty
I picked the latter, Heavy Duty variant. From what I can tell the only difference has to do with emissions and since my truck has no smog stuff on it; It seemed like the better choice. The previous carb appeared to be the "light duty" variant with more vacuum fittings which were unused and capped off for my application.
When I got the carb I made sure the accelerator pump linkage was set correctly by the book (it was wrong) before installing it on the truck and installed a manual choke cable (The heat riser system isn't working).
Tomorrow I plan to put the old carb back on to see what happens if that doesn't work I'll need some ideas. I'll let you know what happens before doing anything else.
The only things I can think of is float adjustment ( didn't touch it)
and doing a compression test on the engine to see if there is a bigger problem.
Here is some additional information about the previous carb and current one (both 2245s).
Previous carb
http://www.carburetion.com/CarbNumber.asp?Number=R8598
R 8598
4104465
0029
Current
http://www.carburetion.com/CarbNumber.asp?Number=R7188
R 7188 A
3870948
0986
Thanks
I purchased a manufactured carburetor a few months ago and put it on without driving it and it seemed to idle fine at the time.
Only now that I'm trying to drive it I realize something is wrong.
Advance Auto Part list two carbs for a 1977 Dodge W200 with a 360 and automatic transmission.
United Carb Remanufactured Carburetor 2 Barrel
Part No. 5-5180
2BBL; Holley Fuel System; Automatic Trans.; Carb 2245, Light Duty
and
United Carb Remanufactured Carburetor 2 Barrel
Part No. 6-6264
2BBL; Holley Fuel System; Automatic Trans.; Carb 2245, Heavy Duty
I picked the latter, Heavy Duty variant. From what I can tell the only difference has to do with emissions and since my truck has no smog stuff on it; It seemed like the better choice. The previous carb appeared to be the "light duty" variant with more vacuum fittings which were unused and capped off for my application.
When I got the carb I made sure the accelerator pump linkage was set correctly by the book (it was wrong) before installing it on the truck and installed a manual choke cable (The heat riser system isn't working).
Tomorrow I plan to put the old carb back on to see what happens if that doesn't work I'll need some ideas. I'll let you know what happens before doing anything else.
The only things I can think of is float adjustment ( didn't touch it)
and doing a compression test on the engine to see if there is a bigger problem.
Here is some additional information about the previous carb and current one (both 2245s).
Previous carb
http://www.carburetion.com/CarbNumber.asp?Number=R8598
R 8598
4104465
0029
Current
http://www.carburetion.com/CarbNumber.asp?Number=R7188
R 7188 A
3870948
0986
Thanks
