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Trying to get the original temp and oil pressure gauges to work, I found a new problem. The voltage in the gauge-wires are pulsating from 0 to 7 volts, this happens with the engine turned off as well. Is this normal? (If I short the gauge-wires to ground, the gauges goes to max, so they...

Got a new oil pressure sender unit for the original gauge. Just wanted to test it before installation, but it´s an open circuit, is it faulty unit? (Tested my ohmmeter with a small lamp, and it showed 5 ohm OK.)

Got my newly rebuilt 360 back in my Lil Red, WOHOOO!! The 1979 Lil Red Express truck has an original oil pressure gauge(no warning-light), but for some reason the previous owner had installed a non-electronic Bosch aftermarket oil pressure gauge, connected with a thin plastic tube. I told the...

My Lil Red 360 (EH1) is finally in the workshop for a complete rebuild, the shop owner recommends to change the stock intake for a Edelbrock Airgap intake and keep the rebuilt Thermoquad in place. Googling around I see quite a lot of postive comments on the stock intake. What do you guys say...

In order to chase down the cause of my shakey idle, I have now had a leakdown test done with the following result: Cyl PSI Leak % Cyl PSI Leak % 1 150 3 2 145 9 3 150 7 4 140 6 5 155 3 6 142 8 7 140 8...

While trying some more suggestions for troubleshooting my idle vibrations, I connected a tachometer instrument to neg. terminal on the ingition coil and the other wire to ground as instructions said. While reading the tachometer I see very signifcant fluctuations, see video. Is this correct or...

Did a compression test on my non restored 1979 360 with 40 000 miles. Not sure if the the result is within bounds or if it´s time for a rebuild. How would the enginge behave if the compression is not OK? Measurements was made with warm engine: Cyl. PSI 1 150 3 150 5...

Hi all! My first post at this nice forum after lurking for years. I have a stock 1979 360 EH1 with 42.000 miles, one owner and complete history, newer rebuilt. It has an annoying slight misfire at idle that I have tried to track down for a couple of years, without success. Pulls fine and...