Hey guys. So, in the ongoing revamp/rescue/get-her-damned-running-again of my 70 Maverick (200 i6), I have replaced the original 42 year old Carter YF with a Tomco reman carb. When trying to crank, it starts to leak fuel out of the middle (believe where the bowl is) seal, although I'm not sure exactly from where because I can't get my head low enough to pinpoint the exact spot. In any case, when it does crank and run, it does so for a second before the carburetor completely overfills and floods the engine and stops. Extra info: the car still uses a mechanical fuel pump, and I have switched it over to Pertronix. Any ideas? Thanks!
There are two filters installed in the bay- one directly before the pump, and one directly before the carburetor. I don't know if they're both necessary, but I have stuck with it. Anyway, the filters are new and have been on basically since the car hasn't been running. So they're at most a couple of months old, but haven't really been used at all. Would I need to take the carb off and dismantle it to check it? Seems pretty odd if that's the case, seeing as it is brand new and all...
Probly a piece of rubber from installin.g the hose, it will require dissasembly to remove and i would check the float level also why you had it apart
It's hard for me to believe that ur lines are restricted if u say the carb is flooding soon after cranking. I am also of the opinion there is a float problem. If it's a recently acquired reman I wud return it for replacement -- Once u disassemble it -- In most cases it yours "no returns".
Yeah, it's less than a week old in my hands. The fuel filter thing... eh, no problem. Guess I should buy a new one anyway. I'll contact I guess Tomco and also Advance to try and get a return and another one. Thanks! PS: This isn't really something that can be visually inspected, right?
Alright! So, I returned the carb under warranty, and got a different one, which now works fine. However, and this is pretty much a new problem, the car won't start. After cranking and starting easily the first couple of tries after installing the second new carb, it died on its own after running about 30 seconds-1 minute each time. It has now stopped catching fire and starting at all. Endless fiddling with timing and fuel mixture setting didn't correct it. I eventually stopped to look at the plugs, which were (surprise!) black and covered with a tiny bit of liquid. I put some old not-yet-blown plugs in, and it cranked for a second, then died. I checked the plugs, and they hadn't turned black, so now I'm stuck as to why the car won't start. Any directions to look to figure out the cause? I appreciate the help so far, and one would figure that this shouldn't be a tough solution to find, but it seems to be, anyway... Quick note- some kind of pin has gone missing from inside the dizzy that holds down the plate firmly, but has never been a problem before. I'd imagine that if the plate was moving around enough that would be a big problem, but as I said, it hasn't been a problem in the year-plus it was my daily driver before all of this.
You may have gotten fuel into the crankcase oil when the other carb was flooding . Pull the dipstick and smell if you have fuel on it. What happens is the car will start and as soon as the oil heats up a little from splashing on the hot pistons, the fuel in it evaporates and makes the mixture to rich to run. The evaporated fuel is drawn in by the pcv valve and mixes with the carb's fuel. Try running your engine without the pcv valve in the rocker cover. If it stays running and you see a lot of vapor coming out of the rocker cover, you most likely have gas in the oil. Sorry, nothing to do but change it and the filter.
Change the oil and the filter? That's not so bad. I wouldn't be surprised if some gas has gotten in the oil, from when the old carb was overflow and causing all sorts of messes.
If u have something loose in the dizzy that cud be ur problem. If I had something loose in my dizzy I wud be concerened that something may be damaged. I wud test to see if I were getting a gud spark to the plugs. If not, I wud attribute my problem to ignition malfunction and focus on that.
It appears that the plate that is loose doesn't move around too much. It seems to be missing a pop-in tack kind of thing that holds it in. But, I have another new (kinda) problem. The carb's leaking again! (When trying to start it, anyway. I haven't gotten her to start and run, yet.) Same area as the first new one. Could this be because there may be a no-spark condition, so it can't do anything with the fuel except try to find another way out? Or something else? I did indeed change my oil, which is so thin and fuel-smelling that it smelled more like gas than oil, but it didn't do much... I'm at a loss, here. I will try and pin down that plate, though. Would glueing the plate down be okay? Or would it create adverse conditions for spark to travel freely?
