Thanks guys. I'll ditch the egr.

I really dont want to dig too deep into the motor (or my pockets) right now, just want to make a reliable driver out of it. When the time does come eventually, I've been considering going with a 390 crank. 428 sounds even better!

Coincidentally, if you have a 360, my recommendation is to find a 390 or 428 crank. Simple conversion to make it a 390 or (better yet with the 428 crank) a 410.

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Plugged EGR port? That sounds familar. If they didn't plug up they would burn out the side. Plugged now being used as a PCV port sounds like poor maintenance. I see no problem using a regular spacer with a PCV port. Just keep the maintenance up.

Dan      Kingman Az.      86409

The newest member of the family is a '60 F100 with a '73 360 & 4-speed. It's spent some time sitting in the Nevada sun, and I've been going through the usual stuff, belts, hoses, plugs, fluids, etc.

It ran fairly well when I got it, but the carburetor (2bbl) is leaky and worn out. There's a spacer under it that looks like its for an EGR setup. The spacer is full of crud and corroded past the point of saving. There's a port in the intake under the spacer that looks like it might have directed exhaust gases to the spacer at one point but its now plugged up with gunk. A previous owner tapped a hole in the EGR port on the spacer and ran the PCV line through there. Not sure how well that setup works.

I'm tempted to just get a plain spacer with no EGR provision and a new 2bbl, but not being familiar with FE's I thought I'd see what you folks think.