hello guys. let me introduce myself.

my name is leonard from south florida. the edsel is my buddies car, and he aint much of a mechanic, so i have some questions for you all since i am the one working on his car.

its a 1960 edsel rager with a 292 v-8 and 2 speed transmission. the odometer reads 98k miles,a nd we seem to think its original. the car is in pretty darn good shape, with a repaint, original interior, etc.

it has a 2bbl holley carb thats about 2 years old installed by the previous owner.

its been having a slight stumble/bucking problem while at cruising speeds around 30-60 mph. runs fine while acceleration up to that speed, but once you hold it steady it will buck.stumble. float level is good, we took the needle and seat out and blew compressed air on the seat, but still getting the stumble. yesterday it was back firing through the tail pipes, so we popped the new looking distributor cap and found the points to be burned and the inside of the cap looked slightly corroded, so we put a new cap, rotor, condenser and points in it this morning. got rid of the back firing problem but still stumbles/bucks.



do you guys have any suggestions where to start next ?



i can hear some valvetrain noise, like lifters, and a buddy said that is normal because these engine are solid lifter engines ?

after a cruise when we pop the hood, i can see some smoke coming from the oil fill cap, and i dont think thats good, probably blow by, right ?



next sunday we will do a compression test, and i was wanting to know what is normal for the 292's ?



also, we are looking for an automatic transmission filter for it, but nobody has one. when we were at autozone today and we told them edsel for the tune up parts, of course they looked at us like we were from mars. LOL. noting for edsels, so i told them 1960 fairlane, and they had the tune up parts for that, and they were the same. but cant seem to find a trans filter. do you guys knwo the model of his transmission ? all i know is the standard c-4, c-6 and fmx ford transmissions, but dont know anything about an old 2 speed thats in his edsel.



any and all help would be greatly appreciated guys.

thanks



leonard