Educating the agriculture community on every aspect of today’s complex farm machinery.
Podcast (farmmachinerydigest-com-feed-podcast2): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:44 — 3.8MB)
Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS
My name is Ray Bohacz, and I know that success on the farm is a three-legged stool: agronomy, business, and machinery. I have always believed and life has taught me, that great judgement in the first two areas can quickly be evaporated by poor decisions in the farm shop in regard to maintenance and repair.
My question is not primarily about farm iron, however I.H.C trucks and engines were used on many farms. My question is this, 1974 IH 345 V8 engine, which has an Edelbrock 1406 – it will not run with choke full open, but if choke is 1/4 closed or if you put your hand over it, but not on it, it runs smooth, and has 20in vac. The carb was rebuilt but wouldn’t run at all. I pulled the carb and checked the floats, which were way off. I set them and put it back on. It ran better, but as stated above. I have checked fuel pressure, at 5# checked for vac leaks and sucking air, have no vac hooked up except vac gauge. HELP!!!!. Any thoughts would be helpful.
Thanks in advance. Mike H
Hi! I tried to e-mail you directly but it keeps bouncing back. Hopefully you’ll visit the website and see this.
I have a number of ideas for you to check. I think it would be best if I talk to you on the phone. Please e-mail your contact information to me at hotrodfarmer@farmmachinerydigest.com.
Thanks for visiting my website! When you have a moment check out some of the podcasts.
Ray Bohacz, the Hot Rod Farmer