Dippy Daddy
Member
Hey Folks,
I joined ForFMJBodiesOnly in April 2021 and I guess I never used it again. At that time I had an '84 Diplomat with about 200,000 miles and she was running great until I ran it out of coolant in October '21 on the interstate and she was never the same again. I don't know if I cracked the block or the heads or what, but I just looked for another car.
I got lucky and found an '86 Fifth Avenue with 130,000 miles, which I've been daily-driving since. Very happy with it, but she's giving the signs of a dying LeanBurn, so I'm going to install an Edelbrock intake and Eddie carb that were on the Diplomat. I already have a good distributor out of a 1974 318 and an MSD 6-series box that I'll swap out of the Diplomat.
But it'll take some time to make this all happen, and I wonder if anyone has a plain old Holley 2280 carb they'd like to sell, so I can keep driving in the meantime. I'm near Cleveland Ohio, so shipping would be to zip code 44122.
Many Thanks.
I joined ForFMJBodiesOnly in April 2021 and I guess I never used it again. At that time I had an '84 Diplomat with about 200,000 miles and she was running great until I ran it out of coolant in October '21 on the interstate and she was never the same again. I don't know if I cracked the block or the heads or what, but I just looked for another car.
I got lucky and found an '86 Fifth Avenue with 130,000 miles, which I've been daily-driving since. Very happy with it, but she's giving the signs of a dying LeanBurn, so I'm going to install an Edelbrock intake and Eddie carb that were on the Diplomat. I already have a good distributor out of a 1974 318 and an MSD 6-series box that I'll swap out of the Diplomat.
But it'll take some time to make this all happen, and I wonder if anyone has a plain old Holley 2280 carb they'd like to sell, so I can keep driving in the meantime. I'm near Cleveland Ohio, so shipping would be to zip code 44122.
Many Thanks.