A few questions that I am not sure about. Appreciate all the help. She's all timed, carb is adjusted...no more stalling or backfires. Or carb fires for that matter! 1) which wire connects to the throttle solenoid. The black with yellow or the black with brown? I took photos when I pulled it apart but can't see the color markings. 2) Does the transmission kick down rod need a return spring? Before putting the throttle solenoid bracket in, it had one, per the Edelbrock instructions. To that end, does everyone run a throttle return spring also, I don't think the old two barrel had one on it. 3) When I took all the California emissions stuff off, I think I also remove the vacuum hose for the transmission. Does this connect to the back of the carb or the front passenger side? It's an Edelbrock 1406 performer. For background, original 302 (dad bought it in 72)...no mods what so ever...about a year ago I decided to do some upgrades. I replaced the intake, carb, put in Petronix distributor, coil, champion radiator, doug throley headers, QTP cutouts and flow master 50's. In the home stretch... No fun manually shifting into second and not having the A/C working. Thanks
Figured it all out. 1) Red wire connect to solenoid 2) Drilled a small hole in throttle solenoid bracket for transmission kick down spring 3) Installed the original T back into the manifold...capped all the lines except one and ran trans vacuum line to that... Everything was running perfect... then alternator light comes on. Took it down to O'Reillys and they tested it failed five tests. Looking at PowerMaster 8-37140. Looks like simple install but will negate the dummy light...I think.
Yeah if this is a one wire alt, the light is history(though some use a std alt with terminals jumped on internal reg).. On my Comet I cut the 15 ohm resistor in parallel with alt lamp(used to activate mechanical regulator) & added a 470 ohm in series... That approx replicates the 500 ohm in the newer vehicles with 2 & 3G alts... Light works as factory...
