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81. Re: [oletrucks] Rochester carb info (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 23:29:13 -0500; I can't speak to this specific carb, but that sounds pretty standard for Rochesters. If so, it is to run a tube through the manifold somewhere. Air is drawn through this and as the engine warms up, t; /html/oletrucks/2003-04/msg00255.html (8,671 bytes)
82. Re: [oletrucks] OT Olds Tornado (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:09:51 -0500; Starting around 66 or 67, Olds made the front drive Tornado (pronounced "Tornahdo" with a short a). This was a full size for the day coupe similar in size to Buick's Riviera. They had big V8 engines; /html/oletrucks/2003-04/msg00282.html (8,226 bytes)
83. Re: [oletrucks] gen to alt wiring (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:54:00 -0500; You have the old externally regulated GM alternator. It puts out about 40 amps max but is a good reliable unit. I have on on my F**d Tractor and it is OEM on my 65 Buick. First, you will need an exte; /html/oletrucks/2003-04/msg00376.html (10,303 bytes)
84. Re: [oletrucks] gen to alt wiring (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:00:00 -0500; Alternators put out 40 or more amps at highway speed and will charge the battery slowly at idle. The generators they replaced could only put out 10 to 20 amps at most and would not charge at all whil; /html/oletrucks/2003-04/msg00410.html (16,599 bytes)
85. Re: [oletrucks] 55-59 Ignition Switch Question (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:52:54 -0500; 55-2 through 59 6 cylinder trucks had foot starter switches. On and off only on the key switch. The V8's had an off/on/start key switch. Bruce K 57 3200 Mt. Iron, MN == EASY and FREE access to your e; /html/oletrucks/2003-04/msg00517.html (8,055 bytes)
86. Re: [oletrucks] heater (score: 1): Author: Bruce K <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 16:11:28 -0600; Newer ones are 15 amp for a straight heater and 25 amp for air conditioning (clutch etc extra). The old ones in our trucks are options and some of our trucks didn't even have fuse panels. The heater; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00003.html (7,586 bytes)
87. Re: [oletrucks] floor switch (score: 1): Author: Bruce K <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 16:29:46 -0600; In the 57 Accessory Installation Manual there is a similar pump shown, but there are choke style cables running out the top to the wiper motor. I bed the 58 had an electrical interface with the wiper; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00004.html (7,412 bytes)
88. Re: [oletrucks] Off Kilter Bed? (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:07:02 -0600; The 70's GM trucks were good for this right from the factory. Whatever the problem is, it probably isn't the end of the world to fix. Find a flat, level piece of concrete. Park the truck there and me; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00023.html (8,689 bytes)
89. Re: [oletrucks] First time user, question #1 advice (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:58:52 -0600; You sure found the right list! This one is tolerant of pretty much anything you want to do to the truck. Go ahead and dress it up. Ask any questions you want, no question is stupid unless you don't a; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00065.html (9,386 bytes)
90. Re: [oletrucks] Off topic: 98 Chev antifreeze leak (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:04:31 -0600; This is a very common problem with the 5.7l (350) Vortecs. Chevy screwed up and overtorqued the inlet manifold bolts and the gasket crushes and starts leaking. The cure is to replace the inlet manifo; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00211.html (10,281 bytes)
91. RE: [oletrucks] Re: why you can't keep the floor starter... (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:46:26 -0600; According to the 57 factory service manual, 6's with standard transmissions got floor push button starters. Everything else got one of two styles of solenoid starters. The solenoid starters got an of; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00213.html (10,375 bytes)
92. Re: [oletrucks] Re: why you can't keep the floor starter... (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:34:25 -0600; Having the live starter can be handy. Once or twice nudging it while in gear helped walk my old man's truck out of some really bad mud when these were newtrucks. With the starter only, there wasn't e; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00226.html (12,326 bytes)
93. Re: [oletrucks] Pistons won't go in SB (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:08:47 -0600; I note your address as gm.com. Is that how GM assembled the 5.7l's? Now it all makes sense :-) If the piston won't go in easy with the rings compressed, could it be something else like the bore being; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00249.html (10,669 bytes)
94. Re: [oletrucks] altenator (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:05:48 -0600; It sounds like you have a GM "Two Wire" alternator. This is an intermediate internally regulated alternator between the original, which had an outside regulator and the modern one wires with internal; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00258.html (8,225 bytes)
95. Re: [oletrucks] Got my truck (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 20:24:42 -0600; Sounds like a plan except for one thing. You should have a small valve under the cab to shut the gas off at the tank. Shut this off before unbolting any fuel lines to keep the gas in the tank from ru; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00360.html (10,568 bytes)
96. Re: [oletrucks] Running unleaded (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:24:37 -0600; Lots of people have been running lots of old cars, trucks, tractors, snowmobiles, and other contributors to your cylinder index on unleaded gas for a long time now. The general consensus is that unle; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00384.html (10,732 bytes)
97. Re: [oletrucks] [OFFTOPIC] 1967 Dodge Starting (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:55:12 -0600; Don't know how Dodges of that era work, but on my old Chevy truck, if the wire from the ignition switch through the ballast resistor to the coil is disconnected, it acts just like that. Soon as you l; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00387.html (8,586 bytes)
98. Re: [oletrucks] Wiring question (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 22:20:40 -0600; It is hooked up correctly. It makes no difference where the No. 2 wire is hooked up to the Bat terminal, at the alternator or somewhere else along the wire to the battery. This wire is the voltage re; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00463.html (10,946 bytes)
99. Re: [oletrucks] poor running engine (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 22:34:33 -0600; Two possibilities come to mind. The first is a bad vacuum advance on the distributor, though this doesn't really sound like that. The second is that the low speed jet on the carb is plugged or set to; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00554.html (9,289 bytes)
100. Re: [oletrucks] Turn signal wiring questions (score: 1): Author: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:23:22 -0600; The wiring you describe sounds pretty normal. Remember that this switch has to integrate the brakes and flasher to the right bulbs, and not turn on the front signals with the brake lights. The wires; /html/oletrucks/2003-03/msg00560.html (13,123 bytes)

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