Posted by Donald F. Blair on Saturday, May 03, 2003 at 3:14PM :
I've got a stock 230 cid. Before I hit speed dial and call VPW do any of you have a source or a spare carburetor in NOS or rebuilt and ready-to-go condition?
This is the utility body 1958 PW that I bought from Jonas last summer. this is the PW that I broke the long rear axle on last month.
Thanks to the Forum, I DIDN'T buy an M37 rear end (too narrow). Thanks to the Forum a reader contacted me with a good deal on front and rear axles brake drum to brake drum.The ring and pinion and the axle I needed wasn't "perfect" but it was good enough and it works. In the course of test driving the truck, the mechanic forgot that my original difficulties began when I ran out of gas, so did he. Apparently there wasn't much junk in the bottom of the tank, just enough to completely foul up the carb.
To get this truck out of the shop, we'd like to drop in a good one and rebuild this one later, at leisure, for a spare.
Thanks to the Forum for any help or advice.
Don Blair
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