ShadowsPapa
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Naw, anyone remembering the Jeeps and Eagles from the 1980s with carburetors also may be familiar with the Motorcraft 2100 swap.
Why? It would take better pitches without either flooding or starving the engine. Still, it wasn't perfect and as people built their rigs to take more extremes in terrain, they ran into flooding or fuel starvation issues.
To this day, a lot of people are doing that conversion - of the Holley Sniper or similar to get rid of the fuel issues due to the extreme angles.
For the masses, fuel injection came along due to emissions laws - it has to pass emissions for xxx miles. Along with that, electronic ignition that could fire a plug that was long since worn out, or eve caked with carbon.
There was no way to guarantee a carbureted vehicle with the Kettering ignition system could pass emissions as most people just didn't bother doing anything until there was a misfire or it wouldn't start.
There were exceptions of course - a Bentley from the early 60s had fuel injection - due to the market it was aimed at.
Otherwise, Chrysler, Ford, GM - they kept going with carburetors and Kettering ignition systems until they could no longer get by thanks to the laws.
People forget that even those who hit the trails on a fairly regular basis, also drive the same rigs in snow, ice, mud, gravel roads, whatever. To get my trailer out of where it's parked, I need 4 wheel drive until I get up the gravel hill to a flatter area. With my Ford, I'd have to get out, lock the hubs, shift the transfer case, pull the trailer out and up, then stop, and reverse all of that. Pain in the ass.
You can be driving along on dry roads and suddenly - there's a blizzard. (ask my wife - she got pissed when I told her to head home, there was a blizzard. It was sunny, clear, and the highways dry where she was. She left work, drove over an hour and a half and was getting madder and madder at me for insisting she head home. Then suddenly, as she described it - the highway was a total mess and people were sliding everywhere. She made it ok - but to have to get out on I35 and lock hubs?)
Millions of vehicles have been made and sold and abused with the front axle disconnect for decades - we don't really hear of that many issues, do we? Am I missing something? Is the FAD breaking a really really common thing??
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