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Alow me to introduce you to my 80 LUV. The vids are of me firing the new eng. up for the first time. The carb. is bad so it is rough. This was just tonight. That is steam out the pipe. All that rain let a lot of water get down in there.
Maybe I'll have it at our next little meet.

Oh and the A/C compressor kicked on when I hit the switch but I didn't have the eng. running long enough to see if it blew cold air, but it is looking good.


http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v712/ ... IM1963.flv

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v712/ ... IM1964.flv

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so thats a fresh rebuilt motor? im just wonderin cuz it kinda concerned me that your revving it so high during the initial break in. it sounds good though. my pup sounds like the last video, but louder. that thing needs a weber!! lol

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"but its that gut feeling of you're drawn to what feels right for yourself and what you're passionate about..."

Yea that was the first start up. I know it was a little high, I think about 2500 or 3000. I had trouble getting gas to get up to the carb and the carb is bad, so...


I'm concerned, I need to look this morning now, but the oil either was getting water in it or it was just stirred up and a little bubbly.

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Rondog your 78 looks superb! It looks really straight and the paint still looks really good. nice!

Thanks. It's a repaint . I bought it that way and if you get close to it, you'd say different. But it looks good from the other lane as you go buy it.

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I drove the 80 Luv around the block a couple times today. I swaped carbs. A bad one for another bad one. So at least it would idle now.

No leaks and all fluids are staying separated!

AND I just noticed I have over 1000 posts now. It has been a good weekend!!!!

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Well, I am unable to watch the vids, but have to say "congrats"!!!!!!

Thanks.

Well it wasn't a perfect weekend. My Ford cost me $870 for a new fuel pump installed.

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[quote="rondog"]Alow me to introduce you to my 80 LUV. The vids are of me firing the new eng. up for the first time. The carb. is bad so it is rough. This was just tonight. That is steam out the pipe. All that rain let a lot of water get down in there.
Maybe I'll have it at our next little meet.


So...Is that what my truck looked like and sounded like before the V8..?

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nope. your 80 didnt run before the v8 swap. lol
the stock motor had a warped head.

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"but its that gut feeling of you're drawn to what feels right for yourself and what you're passionate about..."

Well I fired up the new G-200 in the 78 last night. Drove it some this morning. Runs great! My oldest son will drive it to work most of this week because he has a bout a 6 mile drive each way, no freeway.

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I'm not getting sound when I listen to my video. Anybody else getting sound? It might just be my speakers here, or I downloaded it wrong.

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Sound works on my end!

works here ... turn your speakers on ,sometimes that helps

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My old but now gone Luv...

My oldest son drove it to work today and said it is very smooth. He said it made him realize how bad he is at shifting a stick. When the old eng. would kick and buck it was the trucks fault, now he says he has to admit it's him.

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Thank you for taking the time to show some photos and the videos. Except for the long coverage of the tailpipe exhaust and the swirling around of the camera, I managed to enjoy it! Try to hold the camera still, and pan slowly. Also say a few words, ha ha, don't be shy!!!!! LOL

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The only thing more beautiful than a sunset is a sunrise.

The videos of the white truck running with all the steam was my son on the camera. Makes you feel drunk huh?

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nice stuff you got there

Thanks , The white truck has factory a/c and i was able to figure out some of the tubing routes for mine . Great you got it running good . I love the color of your 78 also .

Yours is a sleeper (a very nice one too) mine is asleep.
For reasons unknown though, the blue one runs a lot stronger than the white one. More than the fact that's it's a G200.