RTS 5215

Cork it is, Thanks guys.

Thank you.

Well than I guess mines right on the money!

Mine as well, and it did it's job on that valve, everything is moving smoothly. Great idea on the broken bolts, I'll give that a try on the two that are protruding. I pulled the fuel pump to clean it up while I've got the side of the truck torn apart, why not right? Well the "black" bowl turns out to be a glass bowl covered with grease and full of the cork gasket material that was apparently the stock gasket. My newly rebuilt carb is back at the shop to be cleaned (if necessary) , my carb guy laughed at me, haha very funny. Which leads to my next question, do you suppose the standard thick grey paper gasket material will be sufficient where that little cork gasket was under the bowl?

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Thanks for the help guys, I'll keep working it. I've got plenty else to do, 3 out of four of the bolts holding the top and bottom manifold together broke whilst I was trying to remove them so I've got those to drill out. The heat riser assembly seems to move ok but the spring doesn't have a lot of tension in it. Anyone? The shop manual isn't very clear on how much it should have and I don't know how you'd measure it anyway.

Ok Guys, Valve covers are off and after some marvel out and on blaster everything seems to be moving good except one valve on #4 will not come back down, if I stick s screwdriver in the spring it pops right back down, hard even, but on the next rotation stays open, suggestions?

Thank you, someone else had suggested that so I am in the process, boy those intake/ exhaust manifolds are quite the test of your patience!!

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Update, got a suggestion to run a compression test, 2 dead cylinders and marginal / inconsistent on the other 4, Going to pull the head and see if I can get away with a valve job. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks all.

Truck ran when I parked it 15 yrs ago. 50k orig miles, very little rust, clean title. Put some mystery oil in the cylinders and worked the fan back and forth by hand to free everything up this winter. Dropped pan, cleaned, pulled filter canister and cleaned, installed new battery and turned over for a while to distribute oil. No spark to coil, replaced wire from starter motor to ignition, no spark out of coil, replaced coil, spark to distributor but not to plugs, installed ignition tune up, now I have spark everywhere, carb leaks if you pour gas into it from can, professional rebuild. Pumping fuel from a can, not the old tank, got fuel and fire but now when I crank it over all I get are some occasional burps out of carb. Just thought maybe someone would say, hey dummy, you forgot A, B , or C

1947 DODGE WC / FLATHEAD 6 CYL I've replaced the coil, dist cap, rotor, points, condensor, plugs and wires, all original / replacement parts. All I'm getting is an occasional backfire out of the carb. I've checked and rechecked wire location. Help!!!

1947 DODGE WC / FLATHEAD 6 CYL I've replaced the coil, dist cap, rotor, points, condensor, plugs and wires, all original / replacement parts. All I'm getting is an occasional backfire out of the carb. I've checked and rechecked wire location. Help!!!