727 Trans mount question

she's a driver now! :d :thumbsup:

once I got the new mechanical fuel pump on, she took right off. It still runs a little uneven, but I'll keep plugging away at that. Found my carb wasn't terribly tight, that helped. I think my plugs May be a little fouled now too, with all of the raw fuel we poured down the carb, it wouldn't surprise me. Timing is set to ear until I find my timing light. :icon_rolleyes:

then, once the transmission was full of oil, I backed it out of the garage. Shift kit is a little stiff I think. Really jumps into gear. Once I have the new pipes on it. I'll take it by the transmission shop that built it for some adjusting to the pressure rod and such. I added an aftermarket gauge cluster with a mechanical water temperature, oil pressure and voltmeter. Still have to wire up the volt meter, but the other two are in. Temp hovered around 180 to 190 sitting in the driveway. :thumbsup: I installed the oil pressure gauge later tonight, so I didn't get to test it out. I'll see what it has tomorrow.

now for a question; I have to figure out if I need to connect a certain wire, and if it's negative or positive. The said wire is found in the firewall connector that had the ammeter wires in it. The wire in question looks like it went to the coil, but I don't know which side (assuming positive). The circuit number is faded and illegible. Here's a couple of pictures:

this first one shows you some of the circuits. The ammeter gauge went through here. The white wire is the starter activation wire from the ignition switch.
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The circuit in question is the one wire that comes from the space with two wires in it, in the upper left of the block. One of which was cut out already.
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Here's the ends. One for the oil pressure, one for the water temperature, and the one to the coil,.. Or so I believe. :confused5:
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The major component left for me is the throttle linkage assembly. The van set-up was designed for forward pull. The truck is opposite. I could have rigged the throttle cable, but the bellcrank assembly for the pressure rod to the transmission wouldn't work. So for now, I'm only idling in and out of the garage. Later this week I hope to see if it barks the tires when it shifts. :winky:
 
wow!!! Has it been a while since I updated, or what? Ok then, let's get to it.

When I last updated, the truck was going through some drivability issues. First, the carb was acting as if it was in need of a rebuild. Initially I swapped one for another that I had that I thought was good, but it wasn't much different. Turns out they both needed to be rebuilt. I put a kit into one and just sprayed out passages with the carb cleaner. It was slightly better, but not "cured". So I took the other one and soaked it a while in the bucket of carb cleaner after I took it apart. That one worked even better, but I still had issues. :icon_eh:

then I started watching timing, and it was always off after I'd set it and drive a few days. The distributor seemed in great shape, but I'd find my air gap on the pick-up would be off. So I first tried a new pick-up, and verified to myself that it couldn't move somehow. But it still would. I began to suspect that my vacuum advance was causing the issue. Local parts stored had a replacement, but at nearly half of the price of a complete rebuilt distributor. So, I just replaced the whole thing, $65 out the door! Couldn't pass that up. It even came with a new pick-up! Cool, now I have a "known good spare" for the glove box. ;) then it was much better! Ah,.. Good progress! :d

then it started to settle down and run right, but occasionally I would have a day that it just ran like crap the whole day. It was as if I didn't let it warm up enough or whatever, it protested all day. It made running errands a pain at times. About then, my uncle, a 40 year expert mechanic, came up from vegas for a visit. After we went over my experiences and he listened to it, he said "I have one word for this problem,... Grounds". I hadn't added any grounds, and was just going from what the Scout already had. I've added ground wires to most all of my old dodges over the years, but hadn't thought of it for the Scout. So off to the store I went.

I added a ground wire from the mounting posts of the voltage regulator and the ignition module, over to the back of the block where the body ground ties in. This alone did wonders! I have a much larger ground strap to replace the stock ground wire there, but I haven't gotten to it yet. I'm also going to ground the battery to the core support, and go from the front of the block (where the battery cable grounds), down to the frame. Triangulate, you might say. Then I should be in good shape. And soon I hope to have a new wiring harness kit to install. And I think I'm going with the kwiikwire kit, and adding the built in ground circuit they offer. Instead of having several grounds to worry about, run them all back to a central grounding location.

Anyway, now it has settled down and been behaving. Well enough that last week I took it to the muffler shop and got new pipes put on. (I wasn't about to leave it at a shop unless I knew it would behave for them. Didn't want them to doubt my work. Lol!) I went with a 3" single and a magnaflow "knock off" muffler. Much quieter! I've had the Scout nearly 10 years now, (that's an amazing revelation, as I write it I can hardly believe it), and it's always had the dual flowmaster 40 series on it, with the mufflers right under the seats (outside the framerails), and the exhaust pointing right out the side just ahead of the rear tire. Sounded good, but often not the greatest for daily driving. Now I can actually hear other things going on around me as I go down the road. I should have done that a while ago.

So that's where we are at. The 360 seems to push it down the road just fine. I can feel a loss in torque, but I expected that. But it will get up and run real well. So far I'm quite impressed! :d the next small expense project is the GM TBI. Going to see how a mix of GM and dodge parts goes. Lol! Next big expense is either tires or springs. The fronts are so stiff that it hardly flexes. Losing 250 or so pounds of engine weight helped that out. And the rears are acting a bit soft now. I'll probably go with a shackle reversal, spring over, turn the knuckles, etc., when I do it. For now, it's summer time. Time to drive and enjoy. :d

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I am almost complete with my 318 swap. I was wondering how you connected the throttle cable to the intake manifold. Did you use a bracket from a dodge or fabricate one?

Thanks
john
 
Your making great progress. The linkage, at first I made my own, that turned out to be a real pain. I ended up buying one from lokar, it was well worth the $. Works and looks great. The 360 is a great motor, more cubes- more better.
 
Did you buy the mounting bracket, cable and kickdown from lokar? I appreciate the help. This thread has been great. I live in lodi so I"ll have to swing by and see yours sometime.

Thanks


dennis hooper said:
your making great progress. The linkage, at first I made my own, that turned out to be a real pain. I ended up buying one from lokar, it was well worth the $. Works and looks great. The 360 is a great motor, more cubes- more better.
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I ended up buying the cable, bracket and kickdown from lokar. I appreciate the help.

robisjo said:
did you buy the mounting bracket, cable and kickdown from lokar? I appreciate the help. This thread has been great. I live in lodi so I"ll have to swing by and see yours sometime.

Thanks
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I kinda rigged my cable up. The sheath on my original cable was splitting about the time I did the swap. So I cannibalized it. I already had a hole in my firewall that the cable would slip through, on the angled portion of the wall. It came out right by the top of the pedal arm. I attached a small l bracket, like one you would use to make a small cabinet. Then I bent it so the end of the cable would go through one of the holes. After that, I attached a barrel nut on the cable. It's holding up ok, but I'd like to have something less rigged up. I can get a picture on here once I get back home tomorrow.

I'd like to see what you did dennis. I have been pondering using a universal cable from lokar and maybe making it a front pull set-up again. But I'm not sure that the 180 degree bend would last a long time.
 
I purchase the lokar cables. I'll post some pics in the next couple of days. It was a really easy install and hooks up really nice. Well worth the money.


tonka toy said:
I kinda rigged my cable up. The sheath on my original cable was splitting about the time I did the swap. So I cannibalized it. I already had a hole in my firewall that the cable would slip through, on the angled portion of the wall. It came out right by the top of the pedal arm. I attached a small l bracket, like one you would use to make a small cabinet. Then I bent it so the end of the cable would go through one of the holes. After that, I attached a barrel nut on the cable. It's holding up ok, but I'd like to have something less rigged up. I can get a picture on here once I get back home tomorrow.

I'd like to see what you did dennis. I have been pondering using a universal cable from lokar and maybe making it a front pull set-up again. But I'm not sure that the 180 degree bend would last a long time.
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robisjo said:
I purchase the lokar cables. I'll post some pics in the next couple of days. It was a really easy install and hooks up really nice. Well worth the money.
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Sweet!! I heard of them as seen pic's on there site, but never seen one installed. This will be some good tech!
 
I had a lokar cable setup for both throttle and kickdown, in my 74 Scout before I rolled it. Don't think I have photos of that setup. It's not very hard to install. The instructions are fairly straight forward

I also had the lokar universal e-brake cable kit. That kit replaced the entire cable system from e-brake pedal down to each rear wheel. I can take photos, if need be, of that being installed, since it's still mounted in the rolled Scout. It made for a much cleaner look too.

Btw - some of the photos that were posted earlier, on page two, were either moved or deleted
 
Yeah, I did some sorting of my pictures on photobucket, and the links changed. So I put a link to the album in my signature.
 
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