Smells Like a Carburetor

Pictures are more exciting than just a description of vehicle problems and their symptoms . . . this is what the Carter YFA Feedback Carburetor looks like sitting on a Ford 300 cubic inch displacement inline six.


All the wires and vacuum lines are special to the feedback system which is basically the auto industry giving the Feds the proverbial middle finger regarding emissions control. The loose translation is "oh we'll do it, but nobody is going to like it, not you, not us, not the consumer . . ."


Yup, that squid/octopus looking thing is the main wire harness for the truck and the tangle of vacuum lines that do stuff and things we think.


At the end of the day, having a pick up truck is about drinking beer out of a can, listening to country music on the radio, kicking back and living the good life . . . if this truck ever leads to that, you'll be the first to know. We did eat some pizza sitting in the bed of the truck though after the successful test drive the other night.

You know what else stinks . . . going to the DMV on the last day of the month, especially the day after a holiday. It would have been nice if somebody tried to talk me out of that one. After some waiting and some more waiting, I finally got a 45-day tag so we can drive the truck around before fail- I mean, going back for an emissions retest. We need to hook up a test light to some stuff and drive around to see if having the engine running and transmission engaged make the EGR solenoid do its thing. Any questions?