Need help with my mav

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  1. justin has a 74

    justin has a 74 Maverick bandit official

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    Didnt look near as long as the 300.
     
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    dmhines Dixie Maverick Boy

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    FYI ... V8 cylinder engines have 8 spark plugs 4 on each side.... I clearly see only 6 on your car all in a line.

    It's either a 170 or 200 CI Inline 6 ..... A 250 is 4.1 Liters .... and uses same starter as the 302 5.0 L engine

    Post your VIN number ... it's easy to figure out ...

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    U - 6-170 - 1 bbl - 105 Horsepower
    T - 6-200 - 1 bbl - 120 Horsepower
    L - 6-250 - 1 bbl - 155 Horsepower
     
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    Good Luck! I`m thinking when you get the vacuum leak and PCV hose all fixed and working, you gonna get that car to wheelie!

    If you can`t get this figured out, I will be home Saturday afternoon and can post picture of a 170 engine hose routing. Should be near the same as your strong ox.

    Just curious,,, what other cars have you owned?
     
  4. TheKingofDemons

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    I have a 1995 ram 1500 manual.

    The mav engine seems to be unable to idle well IE stalling after peddle depression. I am probly going to troubleshoot the fuel line but it may just be low as hell on gas. I put 2 gallons into it from my small can. Deffinetly need more but I doubt that would make the engine die after realeasing the peddle. It has a slight hard start since we are bumping the sylinoid. Any ideas? Engine can't Idle for longer then 15-30 secs. I am thinking my fuel distributor is not functioning at 100% or a carbuator issue but my carb is almost shiny.
     
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  5. PaulS

    PaulS Member extrordiare

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    Did you fix the PCV hose? that will keep it from idling.
     
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    Did u get her to run smooth yet
     
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    74 4 door comet getting ready to install 351W in place of 250 i6 spun bearing. And a 74 mav with 302
    I had that same problem and it turne out to be a chipped rotor gear on the bottom of distributer on my straight 6
     
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    Easiest way to tell a 250 from a 200 is the 250 has 4 water pump bolts and the 200 has 3.:)
     
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    Fuel distributor?:hmmm: now that's gonna realy mess things up if its a diesel. J/K. Hope you get it figgured out.
     
  10. TheKingofDemons

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    It appears to be the carb, already ordered my rebuild kit. some jerk mechanic tried to charge me 200 for the carb rebuild kit. Made me lol.​
     

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