Idk, but it works.

 

What CW is saying you have a throttle return spring yes but, you dont have a trans throttle return spring. With out one it is not pulling the trans throttle back and the trans is shifting like you are giving it more throttle than you really are. If you just easy off it will stay in gear longer than it should before shifting gears. It is nothing big or that will hurt anything as long as you dont care. I will try to get a picture of one of mine that is like yours. The picture that CW put up is of a little different set up.

 

That would explain why it stays in 2nd longer until it gets to 30mpg...lol
I thought it was just a quirk of the oldness. lol

 

this should be the one needed

 

lol


BY JOVE! I don't even see where it attaches in my pictures.

 

Great schematic, I get it now. I'll be sure to set mine up right.

 

Mine was different so did not take a picture of it. But that is the drawing that my shop manual has in it. Good job CW, helped me out from tring to coping it, thank you.

 

i just copied it out of the haynes manual.

 

Well it looks just like the picture in the factory shop manual for 75. I think the numbers are even the same. My carb rod is different, where my spring goes is different, and you adj. mine down at the trans. on one truck. The other truck has a 1 piece throttle rod and adj. at the trans. also. Just in the 70's they made about 3 or 4 different set ups just for the v8 modles. The one on my father-in-laws 72 Roadrunner is like the one on my 78 truck and is different from the one on my 72 Valiant. Even both my 77 trucks are differnt from each other. Dont know why they made so many different set ups to do the samething.

 

So I know its been a while, but the motor has been completely rebuilt and is now sitting in the engine compartment running like a sewing machine (I'll be sure to get pics next time before I post). I'm now moving to another phase, the "I want to stop this thing from rusting to pieces" phase. The bed has quite a bit of rust in it, but only 1 small spot where it is rusted through. I wanted to know the best way to attack this rust and stop it. My plan was just to grab a belt sander or something and just go to town, but I wanted to see if you guys knew of a way that might be less time consuming or any tricks I should know about. I'm not making a show car, I just want to stop the cancer.