Radio Magic

Yesterday (March 16th,2008) my dad and I took a ride in the truck. While riding around I got bored and decided to fiddle with the radio. To my surprise it turned on! It never ever ever turned on before and I had just about given up on it, but it lit up no sound but it lit up. When we arrived at the house we turned off the truck and put it in ACC and turned the radio up as high as it would go and there was.... SOUND!!! not loud barely audible (bad speaker I'll fix it this weekend) but it was working pretty exciting if you ask me.

Testing the Truck

Today I took a good look at my truck and after reading my 69' Service manual I decided to take a look at my air filter. If you can see in the photos it's a bit different it's equipped with a heat stove to make sure all air coming in is above 100 degrees F. It is run by vacuum a thermostat decides to let vacuum through or not depending on temperature. It should let vacuum through at this temperature but would not, so to get past this I bypassed the sensor and hooked it straight to the vacuum motor. Lo and Behold it opened correctly but shortly after I heard an audible POP and it had closed. Looks like I need a new vacuum motor and sensor. Let's call Delco AC! they can help.... not. Anyone got any ideas what I should do? It has an exhaust leak on the left manifold, so if we replace that we can get a regular manifold getting rid of the heat stove, which would let us get a new carburetor. Time to go ponder the great ponder-able