Holley Carb Tuning Help

[PwrWgnDrvr]

John, that salt spray rot was so destructive that the sale of the truck included a nice replacement cab, hood and fender.

[Wildergarten]

John, that salt spray rot was so destructive that the sale of the truck included a nice replacement cab, hood and fender.

That truck is an impressive display of what salt spray can do, and an example of why "MIL-Std 810G Method 509.5 Salt Fog" is the test the military uses for testing metal coatings, including electronics. Similar to what Terry described, the truck I wrecked that it replaced had bad cowling rot, dying rockers, destroyed inside door panels, and almost good fenders, but a decent hood requiring an estimated total of $8,000 worth of repair work. Similarly, with the '69 truck I had, that body was replaced in 1990 because the original graveyard truck body was totally gone. Colma gets salt spray from both sides being within a mile of the ocean and two miles from San Francisco Bay. So although trucks in California typically do last longer than the East Coast, get them near the ocean with that onshore wind and it's a goner in a matter of a few years no matter how good the paint is because the salt exposure and cool, damp weather is all year long.

[Hobcobble]

Yes, you do have regions in your state which aren't as kind to vehicles as
others. It sounds like yours rot from the exterior more so..... whereas ours
usually rot from the undercarriage up, making most everything worthless.
The one thing I can say about our old trucks around here that are still in
bone yards is that they tend to not have a ton of miles on them due to rusting
out so quickly. The drive train parts are still worth picking up when needed.

John

[Wildergarten]

It sounds like yours rot from the exterior more so..... whereas ours usually rot from the undercarriage up, making most everything worthless.

Ours typicall start wherever there is a drain. Inside and along the bottom of doors, rocker panel drains, cowling drains and the inset for the windshield, down the inside of the fender from the cowling, the front edge of the hood, and below the corners of the bed. Then there are the capture spots that pool water from other locations and were never meant to drain. Chief of those is of course floorboards, lots of roasted floorboards, especially from the passenger's side where the heater might leak. Unlike roads with salt, our fenderwells, cores, and roof gutters are seldom terribly crappy, at least I haven't seen it.