Travelall - it coughed!

[Tom Mandera <tsm1@domain.elided>]

Came home, put the carb on, hooked up the linkages, put spark plug wires 
on, distributor cap..

Fuel line to the carb.  The fuel pump has a threaded fitting, so instead 
I just ran a hose to small gas can sitting on the roof.  After I started 
the siphon, I made a huge gas mess everywhere that I had to wait out.. d'oh.

Tried it with jumper cables, but ended up throwing a spare battery into 
the Travelall.

Sprayed some starter fluid into the carb, cranked it over.. nothing.  
Nothing nothing nothing.  Moved the spark plug wires around one spot.  
Nothing.  Moved the other way once.  Nothing.  Changed coils.  Nothing.  
Moved again, nothing.

Then, with the wires in what I believed to be the "correct" spot (#1 
pointing at the vertical water pipe from the water pump, right?), I 
cranked.. and then punched the throttle (Oops, needs a return spring 
still).  It burped!

Again.. puff puff and some smoke coming out of the intake, and from the 
vacuum fitting at the rear of the tappet cover.  This is disconnected.  
One hose came on my 2bbl intake, but the fitting for the tappet cover was 
wrong, while the fitting that came with the 392 had the right fitting, 
but the hose is junk.  

Moved the plug wires again.. got a puff puff and then flames out of the 
carb.. OK, *NOW* it's on wrong.. put it back to where it should be.

Played some more with it and had lots of smoke from the intake, and a few 
loud PUFFS came from the driver's side glasspack'd exhaust, and I heard 
stuff rattling.. maybe carbon, or maybe sun flower seeds. ;-)

I eventually gave up for the night.. but it was trying, anyhow.

So.. the hose that runs from the rear of the "carb base" (though it's 
actually on the intake) to the tappet cover is where manifold vacuum is 
"souced" to the carb?  Or is it something else?  Would it explain my Puff 
Puff Puff but no run?  I used a carb base gasket from a Ford that matched 
closely.. had a *small* hole where the vacuum from the hose I'm missing 
would come into the intake and up to the carb, so that seems OK.  I did 
plug off the intake manifold/carb side of this hose.

All of the other vacuum hoses I *believe* are routed or plugged.  A LARGE 
fitting on the passenger rear of the intake is not capped.. but I think 
it might be a water hose or some such.

Are my assumptions about the "hose" from the intake to the tappet 
correct?  Would that be a good enough reason for the motor to Puff but 
not run?

The hose on the manifold had a round cylinder body, but then a "nipple" 
on the end.  The hose that was with the motor is just a cylinder.  I 
couldn't get the "nipple" hose to go into the hole.

What's this particular part called n' what are these variations?  I'll 
look through my shop manual shortly.

Oh well, it almost ran.. 

-Tom Mandera, Helena MT
http://www.tmcom.com/~tsm1/scout
'72 Travelall 1110 with a 392 that wants to live again