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Best options as others have mentioned are ceramic coat the headers and use heat shields. The very first thing I tackled was reducing heat going into the cab. I'm in south texas with a K model. I used Heatsheild Products (HSP) thermaflect cloth and covered the whole underside of the engine cover. Tha...

So a bit of follow up... Needed to rebuild the complete pedal assembly and while I'm at it install new gauges fix electrical items...etc. So the light switch...why would mine not work... Well upon working on it while it was out of the vehicle...discovered previous owner attempted to superglue the pi...

That's what I though....and looking at your pic it appears that the pin is flush with the top of the switch lever when at it's normal state...mine is fully depressed. I suspected mine was seized from corrosion in the down state. I put a drop of kroil in the depression so hopefully I can get that uns...

So the light switch clearly has a stop that appears to be able to clicked over to move the switch to positions "S1"..."S2"...etc. Book tells you to use the ignition key to push the center of the switch and toggle the stop over. Seems straight forward. But mine will not move over ...

Thanks for the contact. I will reach out to him and see if he has any info on this.

Yep...that's how I have always done timing. Also given the distance between the pointer and pulley OD...parallax is even more sensitive to who's looking at it without a 3rd reference point. As it currently stands you would have to be looking from the drivers side almost straight on top of the engine...

Outside Houston area.. I've searched hi and lo in the service manual, operating instruction...and nothing.. Sec A, pg 71 lists the 4 carb versions... but I can seem to find a definition to a hot climate version. yep full rebuild...in fact I will be redoing the factory chromate finish on the die-cast...

When timing the distributor...logic would dictate that you want to view the pointer to pulley mark from the passenger side as that is where the distributor is located. Though line of sight with respect to the pointer is quite odd when viewed from the passenger side. You need a third reference point ...

Hi All.. Just bought a 710k model and going through to get it road ready. Engine idle is a bit lack luster and will need work. I plan on rebuilding the carbs completely when the weather cools off. I am curious as to what defined a "Hot Climate" carb ver. Yes there are the various versions ...