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ottoschmidt · 11-28-2019, 07:06 PM

Hello Men and Happy Thanksgiving,
And how happy I am .. My mechanic finally found my backfire through the carburetor problem . Before I bought this truck it was converted to a 12 volt . Here , there was a ceramic resistor mounted on the firewall with a wire running to the distributor because he said you cant run 12 volts to a 6 volt distributor . Since it had a 12 volt Pertronix replacing the points it needed the resistor removed . He simply didn't know the history of the change over . I appreciate all of your input .It will be all saved knowledge for future trouble shooting . It starts with a bump of the key . I have a question though , how many miles would be considered it to be broken in ? It runs nice but that damn one speed rear end will only let it go 40 to 43 MPH … Regards

11-28-2019, 07:06 PM	#16
ottoschmidt Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: Pittsburgh , Pa Posts: 23	Re: backire through carburator on 1946 8 cylinder Hello Men and Happy Thanksgiving, And how happy I am .. My mechanic finally found my backfire through the carburetor problem . Before I bought this truck it was converted to a 12 volt . Here , there was a ceramic resistor mounted on the firewall with a wire running to the distributor because he said you cant run 12 volts to a 6 volt distributor . Since it had a 12 volt Pertronix replacing the points it needed the resistor removed . He simply didn't know the history of the change over . I appreciate all of your input .It will be all saved knowledge for future trouble shooting . It starts with a bump of the key . I have a question though , how many miles would be considered it to be broken in ? It runs nice but that damn one speed rear end will only let it go 40 to 43 MPH … Regards