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swptln
Welcome to the forum Nick.
Looks like you got yourself a nice project.
As Terry pointed out the 318 was a option as was all V8's, the 225 was the standard engine for your truck.
The Carter 2-bbl is the easiest and best carb to run on the 318's. A few guy's have converted to the Holley/Motorcraft 2300 series, but you have to run an adapter plate and it needs to be modified/port matched or it will not work right. The ports on the 2300 are a lot larger than the 318 intake, so it will need to be modified, but the Carter BBD is a bolt on.
Some of the later 318's ran a Stromberg 2bbl, but IMO there junk. I had one on 68 LA318 and it's like running a Holley, if you like wrenching on it every time you drive it or when weather conditions change they work ok, LOL. I converted to the Carter and no wrenching.

Hey Mark,

Thanks for the welcome.

I was already beginning to lean towards a stock carb, because I'm trying to build a driver and I am looking for reliability over performance (for now that is!). Thanks for the heads up and the confirmation on the Carter; I will most likely go that route. I had on an old 53 CJ3B and that Carter was pretty simple, just set the baseline and it ran great.

Where would you recommend picking up a carb? I've been searching online.

As for my linkage.....not sure what stock looks like. As I stated before the previous owner, many years ago, put a quadra jet on it. It looks easy enough to fab something, but I think the linkage on it now is the original. I wish I had a photo to share.

Also, I'm missing a gas pedal, it's just a rod. I'll do some research, but I'm open to ideas/suggestions on what exactly the stock pedal was?



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