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Did you shock yourself trouble-shooting the spark plug wires, causing your hair to stand up? (Sorry I just had to say that!) Seriously, I am impressed with your troubleshooting skills and how you figured out it was the ignition wires. You noticed that all spark plug wires are always separated from the Factory. I also found the Ford motorsport plug wires are great, reasonably priced, and cool! 😎 Have you ever considered measuring the resistance of the spark plug wires with an ohm meter? If you do, let me know what you find.

The wires from autoparts stores are junk now. I've put bosh wires from auto zone on my stock ignition d150 and it looked like a fireworks show under the hood at night.

It's fun to do, just open the hood in the dark, then start the motor. Staying away from the belt and pulleys, can see blue lightning if the wires are cracked

Great video - good explanation of the importance of a properly set transfer slot! Its also good to add info about the secondary throttle blade adjustment screw for some applications. My car wont idle high enough due to the cam / torque converter being on the tighter side - so it requires that little bit more air at idle. This is where people typically drill holes in their primaries to get the transfer slot back to where it should be; but a much better first go at adjusting would be on the secondaries before making modifications to the carb :) Cheers!

I remember seeing bad plug wires light up at night. It was easy to find a bad one. In the old days, Plugs, Wires, coils, rotor buttons and caps failed often. Tune ups was a way of life.

Why would you spend 3x as much for a Pertronix distributor and use cheap generic 7mm plug wires? thats like buying $2000 Ping golf clubs and then using old range balls to golf with!, lmao OR putting 2 stroke lawnmower gas in a race engine

You may also try putting a piece of split wire loom tubing on the wires to help insulate them. I had plug wires running around the back of the engine on my 1999 Mustang and I covered the wires with tubing mainly to prevent the plug wires from rubbing on anything that could damage them. I also buy decent performance plug wires from Summit Racing rather than standard wire from local parts stores. BTW: Nice car.

Get new wires won't have problems dummy

Great video. I’ve been super ocd about keeping my wires isolated

Sweet car man. Good video.

I've heard about that happening too. Never experienced that on mine. I did have a miss at highway speeds once that would go away at lower speeds. Turns out a wire in the MSD 6AL box had gone loose from connector. Air blowing into engine bay at highway speeds caused it to move, causing the miss. Just an fyi if you ever experience something like that.👍

This was common knowledge back in the late '60s . It's funny how these current day gurus overlook this. Find yourself some very old hot rodder, he'll show you many old tricks.

I never thought a few wires could cause that much of a problem, informative video!

I noticed your Park City, Utah shirt. Park City is not far from me and is a cool place to visit. I have been fighting a dead spot on my Mustang. Blaming the single plane intake and big cam for causing the "off Idle dead spot!" I will try the vacuum gauge trick to see if that would help. Thanks for the great tip!

You mean to tell me that I have in the past I have been pulling oil pans the hard way all this time!! Great idea! Also, that cross-member gets in the way when pulling the engine out. In situations like this, I like to weld a tube inside where the bolt goes through. This lets you tighten the bolts more without collapsing the tube. Good Job!

SO is this worth any HP over stock 390FE truck manifold? i understand i will lose 50plus lbs off front of truck, BUT its a truck so 50 on 4000lb truck isnt that much unless it comes with some power/tq too?

IM GLAD TO SEE THE YOUNGER JEN KNOWING ABOUT CARB AND CARB CHEATERS U DID A GREAT JOB EXPLAINING IT KEEP IT UP LIKE TO SEE YOUNGER GENN BEING INTREASTED IN OLD SCHOLL

I like the ingenuity. Pretty smart way to solve a weird problem like that!

Cool idea!

That’s a good idea

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Never had a holley carb, but thanks for the info!👍

I haven't given those slots a second look since the 70's. I learned something new today. We used to change the springs in the distributor to get the points plate to zero out. I never thought about the plate maxing out the other way after putting a stronger or weaker spring in. I'd say fuel injection is easier but there's probably more trail and error in that too.

Ermm what the sigma

Your theory does not fit with the Holley engineers book. Did you forget about accelerator pumps for off idle trandition.

You said ftlbs wrong. Lol

That is a highly optioned truck for the year. You are the best farm mechanic with amazing zip tie skills!!

I like the roller spring perches, I will try them out on my 71 Mustang. Speaking of your p/s leak. If the hose end is a flare, the hose end or the fitting may be damaged where it seals on the flange. look for cracks or imperfections on the sealing part of the flange. If the flange is damaged, they sell a copper flange gasket that you can use to repair the fitting or hose end. Hoses you can not buy or custom work, and have the room. I have had the steel tube ends cut off the old hoses and flanged the end of the tube you cut off. I then would have a hose built to fit the ends to the new flange. You Basically change the hose ends to adapters to JIC fittings. I hope that makes sense? It would be cool to see a video of you rebushing the throttle plate. My 71 Mustang has always had a whistle I never could figure out. Let us know when you figure it out! I Like your videos!

Expensive rare intake, nice

Lykins Motorsports is a good channel to watch and learn from. 😉

One of your videos just popped up on my feed. This is the 3rd video I watched. As a 60 year old, proud to see a humble young man like you who appreciates what he has and has aspirations to improve his own vehicle. Keep on Wrenching!!! 🤠

Oh, the joys of power steering leaks! Been there done that! As soon as I can I'm gonna convert mine over to true power steering! So tired of dealing with that system! Good luck with yours!

Our open tracker roller perches just came in the mail yesterday for our 69 torino bracket car . Can’t wait to try them out

Great mod, definitely worth it, I love mine and very pleased with them. The reason it lowered the car alittle is because the old bushing style had that hard rubber bushing it has to flex where as with the bearing it’s free flowing and has a lot more freedom to move and settle, which helps with handling. One thing you could try for your power steering leaking issue, if the auto part stores don’t have what you need, you could try places like cj pony parts, look at hoses/fittings for 67-70 mustangs with power steering as they used the same power assisted steering like the fairlane/ Torino’s did. Good luck, keep up the great work.

That's a cool truck! My uncle had a 77 F250 Ranger XLT that was light jade. Yes, show more projects and other things. I enjoy watching your channel!👍

That is a cool truck. Can't wait to see what you do with it.

Great content and very cool truck bud, the 73-79 ford trucks have always been my favorite especially the 76-77 model years. Can’t wait to see how she comes along. Keep up the great work!

And no power steering…

This was so fun to watch! I love that generation of trucks. That paint scheme looks so good on it with the patina too. I wanna start a channel just like this soon! I want to hopefully get a 1964 Pontiac Catalina as my first car

Great find, man! Love that body style! Look forward to seeing whats next!

How did you get vacuum for your power brakes?

Cool car! Rick from RCindustry sent me.

Son, I have had a 69 Torion GT for over 33 years, the noise you are hearing is probably your A arm bushings, as they get old, they start squeaking, you can try to hit them with a lubricant spray, but most of the time it's just time to change them. A hint, if you do change them is to install 90 deg zerk fittings in them, that way you don't have to put a hole in the shock towers to lube them and can grease them every time you change the oil and make the front bushings and suspension parts last longer. I have gone thru many engine, tranny combinations over the years, awaiting the time to once again strip the body and paint it again, thank goodness the only rust it has had is the lower rear quarters and trunk extension pieces. This time the engine awaiting on the stand is a mild 514 with a mild stall equipped C6, good luck.

Cool video! One tip I wanted to let you know about is lube the hood springs at least twice a year. I had one on my car go bad and nearly bent the hood. I've heard/seen stories of them bending the hood when you close it. WD40 will do. Your spring perches squeaking reminded me of that. Lol

Roller spring perches are what you want. $225 a pair from Opentracker Racing, worth every penny