Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Just wondering if anyone has any advice. I will list my problems and tell you what my plan is for tommorow.
1) Idles is a little low. When I put my truck in gear the idle gets real rough, like it is surging. The RPM's go from about 600-750 continously. At idle in N it is around 850. Could this be a overflow valve problem? It does this when engine is warm just after starting but quits surging after driving around for a couple of minutes. I will again be turning up the idle to a little over 900.
2)Slide TST#6 plate ahead. I had it back less than stock because when I installed my 370's and gov spring kit I was concerned about transmission life. Hopefully that is all solved now.
3) Maybe Piers secret governor lever adjustment. I think I can do it. One question about this though, when it says:
It is adjusted so the lever is flush with the bottom edge of the plate, and does not ride under the plate.
Where exactly is the bottom edge of the plate? I also have a #6 as shown in the illustration, but I do not adjust it to the outer most tip near the bottom do I? I am assuming I just go to the bottom of the plate where there is no real "tip" just the lowest rounded corner. Just checking... . http://www.piersdiesel.com/LeverAdj.htm
4) Afc needs to be adjusted. I was going to slide the housing all the way forward and adjust starwheel to my likes of smoke and low end response. Is there much more I can do? Right now at an idle in gear it smokes quite a bit and the smell is actually quite foul. The smoke is kinda greyish white.
5) I am having a little low end miss under light to moderate acceleration. Piers was mentioning delivery valves... ... ... Can any of my low end roughness be smoothed out by a governor spring adjustment? Click looser or tighter... .....
I want to try and do alot of these adjustments a few times by myself and with the help of others, before I give Piers a call to help me out. Half the fun is trying your own thing and seeing if it works. But I think I saved the e-mail Piers wrote me about all the free advice I need when I bought my 370's and gov springs!
Might have to take him up on it one day... ... ...
1) Idles is a little low. When I put my truck in gear the idle gets real rough, like it is surging. The RPM's go from about 600-750 continously. At idle in N it is around 850. Could this be a overflow valve problem? It does this when engine is warm just after starting but quits surging after driving around for a couple of minutes. I will again be turning up the idle to a little over 900.
2)Slide TST#6 plate ahead. I had it back less than stock because when I installed my 370's and gov spring kit I was concerned about transmission life. Hopefully that is all solved now.
3) Maybe Piers secret governor lever adjustment. I think I can do it. One question about this though, when it says:
It is adjusted so the lever is flush with the bottom edge of the plate, and does not ride under the plate.
Where exactly is the bottom edge of the plate? I also have a #6 as shown in the illustration, but I do not adjust it to the outer most tip near the bottom do I? I am assuming I just go to the bottom of the plate where there is no real "tip" just the lowest rounded corner. Just checking... . http://www.piersdiesel.com/LeverAdj.htm
4) Afc needs to be adjusted. I was going to slide the housing all the way forward and adjust starwheel to my likes of smoke and low end response. Is there much more I can do? Right now at an idle in gear it smokes quite a bit and the smell is actually quite foul. The smoke is kinda greyish white.
5) I am having a little low end miss under light to moderate acceleration. Piers was mentioning delivery valves... ... ... Can any of my low end roughness be smoothed out by a governor spring adjustment? Click looser or tighter... .....
I want to try and do alot of these adjustments a few times by myself and with the help of others, before I give Piers a call to help me out. Half the fun is trying your own thing and seeing if it works. But I think I saved the e-mail Piers wrote me about all the free advice I need when I bought my 370's and gov springs!
Might have to take him up on it one day... ... ...
