After some initial testing of the FMT's systems, I had come to find that the starter in the truck that I picked up from the local junkyard when we pulled the 5spd from another truck turned out to be well, bad. I tried three batteries, two from known running vehicles, only to still have the starter turn weakly. Even with the heavy duty jump starter on the battery the thing still turned slowly. So I had to bite the bullet and buy another starter, especially if I had any plans on being able to get this engine started more sooner than later. After getting the replacement starter I commenced to pulling the old starter out. Two bolts and a couple nuts later I had the wires disconnected and the starter out and on the top of the radiator support, out of the way. After doing everything in reverse I had the new starter in just as fast as I had the old starter out. After hitting the key, we had some cranking action on the starter. With me finally able to write off this part of the truck, I took the time to fully lock down a battery so I won't have to worry about hunting batteries afterwards. We had this same problem with the F250 a year ago when the starter would barely crank when the engine was hot. Turned out the starter was a hot starter, drawing too much current during startup and not putting out enough torque to crank the hot engine over. Once the starter was replaced, the engine spins over like a top. The last thing I had to address was the fuel line. Even though I had the fuel pump running every time I turned the key on, I noticed that no fuel was coming up to the engine. I disconnected the line after the fuel filter and tried again, and in a couple minutes the pump drew enough gas up and out through the fuel filter. For the hell of it I tried to blow on the fuel line as well as draw on it. It was here I found there was a clog in the metal line going from the fuel pump assembly up to the junction. Since I would end up having to get a new length of metal tubing to use for the fuel line, I pulled out the bad line to get ready for my installation of new line. After making the necessary bends to get the metal tube to follow the same path as the old tubing, I was able to get the line to the point where it snaked up to connect to the section of metal tubing coming from the carburetor while still running along the frame rail down to where the fuel pump is at. I ended up doing away with the section of rubber tubing that was used to link up the two sections of metal tubing at the top, right behind the power steering pump. It's straight metal from the fuel pump all the way up to the carburetor. With these things done, the truck is in the position to be ready to test fire. With all the vital fluids already in the engine, all we have to do is just try to crank the thing over, taking time out only to make adjustments to the carburetor and distributor as we try to start it. Hopefully we'll get this thing humming with minimal effort.
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