RuralTowner
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The truck I got is an 81 model with manufacture date of May 1980...literally one of very first 22R's produced. Now onto my problem.
Back in Nov 11' my clutch took a dump and SOMEHOW took the excellent average 32-33mpgs with it after the old 4sp took a dump and I found a 5sp. For the last year I've tried just about everything...even had got it re-ringed. Oddly though...as irregular as mpgs were before the re-ringing, I did periodically see 30+...even 32 once...but the norm was 25-29ish.
Now its somewhere only in the high 20s since the carb that came with the truck started gurgling away as it dumped fuel. Found a used replacement on ebay...it proved a bit steadier as mpgs went but I still never got back that 4-6mpgs i lost...worse...the damn carb I had to crankcrankcrankcrank to get it to start but otherwise ran better, if only marginally. For the record the original carb did NOT have a starting problem.
THEN after a few months I decided that Third Time Must Be The Charm. Well again it was a mixed blessing. Found a carb whose tag number was placed only a few 10s higher (ie the 2nd to last number was bigger)...while being externally identical. Internally...the pressed in port for the 2nd jet was BIG. Now this carb is acting up...can go down the road all fine but then it will chug n cough n jerk at around 55-60...or a bit less or more.
The only other thing I've yet to try is to redo the valves...AGAIN! Otherwise I've had it up to my ears with this and am considering a fully new replacement. As stock replacements are pricey as all hell, have any of you with the old stock carbs had any luck with the Weber 32/36?
What kind of MPGs did you have before//after the change? I ask because I depend on my truck as my primary driver...
I also hear that the Weber can be...finicky...to say the least as tuning goes though. Feedback is needed badly!
Back in Nov 11' my clutch took a dump and SOMEHOW took the excellent average 32-33mpgs with it after the old 4sp took a dump and I found a 5sp. For the last year I've tried just about everything...even had got it re-ringed. Oddly though...as irregular as mpgs were before the re-ringing, I did periodically see 30+...even 32 once...but the norm was 25-29ish.
Now its somewhere only in the high 20s since the carb that came with the truck started gurgling away as it dumped fuel. Found a used replacement on ebay...it proved a bit steadier as mpgs went but I still never got back that 4-6mpgs i lost...worse...the damn carb I had to crankcrankcrankcrank to get it to start but otherwise ran better, if only marginally. For the record the original carb did NOT have a starting problem.
THEN after a few months I decided that Third Time Must Be The Charm. Well again it was a mixed blessing. Found a carb whose tag number was placed only a few 10s higher (ie the 2nd to last number was bigger)...while being externally identical. Internally...the pressed in port for the 2nd jet was BIG. Now this carb is acting up...can go down the road all fine but then it will chug n cough n jerk at around 55-60...or a bit less or more.
The only other thing I've yet to try is to redo the valves...AGAIN! Otherwise I've had it up to my ears with this and am considering a fully new replacement. As stock replacements are pricey as all hell, have any of you with the old stock carbs had any luck with the Weber 32/36?
What kind of MPGs did you have before//after the change? I ask because I depend on my truck as my primary driver...
I also hear that the Weber can be...finicky...to say the least as tuning goes though. Feedback is needed badly!