Posted by Marty [108.162.246.62] on Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 00:43:19 :
In Reply to: Re: 1960 W300 power wagon engine posted by Chewie [162.158.74.120] on Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 00:11:24 :
You know, I can honestly say that in probably over 100 trucks & cars, I’ve never had a carb issue. Dirty gas tanks, bad fuel pumps, bad engines etc but once restored properly, a carb is about the most reliable thing on a vehicle. Think about it...I mean I’ve driven cars literally hundreds of thousands of miles & never touched the carb, yet rebuilt distributors, installed fuel pumps, replaced cams...I mean if you keep the fuel clean they basically last forever.
Now I agree, the fi is more fuel efficient, runs cleaner...I mean it’s a better all around thing but there’s so many things that are better than the 75 year old technology but I doubt fi is less maintainable...maybe more actually when you look at the life of a vehicle. I mean an LS3 is a better power plant than anything we use & I won’t be installing one of those either.
Embrace the cool old technology. Understand that like in the case of the 318LA...they didn’t build it because it was better...it was cheaper to build.
You know, I’d love to meet someone that’s taken their Power Wagon & just worn it’s out. How many of us have put a few hundred thou on the odometer? Why was it good enough back in the 80’s but all of a sudden a truck most of us won’t put 2000 miles a year on will need a fuel injected crate engine & disc brakes that won’t really stop you any quicker unless you’re doing the Rubicon?
That’s my take.
Sorry for the anti technology rant :)