The carb spacer got here, it fits the intake but is not quite right for the carb, the throat on the new carb is correct for the spacer but the stud spacing to bolt it down is a little too wide, I made it work with a little grinding with a rotary rasp just removing a little material on the inside of each hole.
I will take a picture soon and maybe someone here can tell me what ports I can cap off on this carb, I think it is truck carb for the BB6s but everything appears to be in the correct orientation. It is mocked up on the intake now I need to dig around and see if I can locate the stock accelerator cable bracket\, it seems like I have spent a lot of time over the last week searching for things :roll:
I ordered the correct valve spring retainers so I am waiting on those to arrive plus a handful of other little things like the fuel filler neck hose. Not sure what is going to jump up and bite me right now but as far as my memory serves everything else is hooked up and ready to rock.
Right now the major things are getting the valve springs changed over and reassembling the rocker arm shaft, bolting the head down, doing the pre-lube (with break-in oil), putting the header back on and hooking it up to exhaust system with some temporary pieces of flex pipe.
I think I mentioned that I had all my gauges (oil and water temp are mechanical) and tach hooked up, the ignition system has power to it but not sure how to test to see if it is working properly, I could always stand in a water puddle and hold the coil wire in my hand as I cranked the motor over
I will probably go over all the system multiple times before I try to start it for the first time.
See Ya,
Mike