Carb /Engine Issue: Taking it out tomorrow (a little scared)

[Rustytruck]

Make sure your truck has a 180 degree thermostat, put in fresh plugs and drive the thing. after 1000 miles pull your plugs and reaccess your situation. Your engine was just washed with gas so who knows whats really going on. The compression is good so life is good if there was something really bad going you would see it in the compression reading.
check and make sure your valve cover is properly vented and the PVC is working properly. If oil is still a problem pull a valve cover and make sure the drain down holes in the heads are not plugged with sluge or broken valve stem seals and not allowing the oil to drain down as it should. if oils sits on top too long it will get sucked down the valve guides.
dont use any 10w-XX oil use straight 30 weight or 20w-XX oil. old motors were not designed for 10w oil there is too much bore taper and crappy valve seals to handle light weight oil.

 

[pcf_mark]

If you really oiled it down good the oil is also in the muffler packing. You can heat it up all day but need to drive it to clean them out. I would drive it and see if it clears up.

 

[ObscureMachine]

If you really oiled it down good the oil is also in the muffler packing. You can heat it up all day but need to drive it to clean them out. I would drive it and see if it clears up.

I agree, and would love to. The fact is that for several reasons it is not street legal. And I don't have a way to get it out of the city where I could run it.

 

[Justafordguy]

Just let it run at high idle, but keep a close eye on the temp.

 

[ObscureMachine]

Tomorrow I'm going to run the bronco along the levee road!! About 2 miles of empty road. Now I just gotta get the 1 1/2 miles over there without the woowoo stopping me for expired tags. I'll run it in second gear to get the RPMs up and see what happens.