<VV> '64 turns over, won't start

JUDY HOOK judynrandy at comcast.net
Fri Jul 7 12:16:06 EDT 2017


If you let your car sit for 6 months without starting it, i'd bet the carbs and fuel pump dried out.  If so, the ethanol in the gas these days did its' thing.  Your probably looking at a new fuel pump and rebuilding the carbs again.  Or at least replacing the accelerator pump cups.  One thing you could try is to undo the fuel pump set screw and work it up and down by hand.  If your pump is ok, you'll be able to hear the gas 'squishing' through the lines.  If you pump and pump and pump and nothing, then the dreaded ethanol has done its' dastardly dead.   Whenever I work on a project now, I submerge the fuel pump and carbs in a bucket of kerosene or diesel fuel until finished.  No more dead fuel pumps or carbs.

Randy (Cap'n) Hook

Hopewell, PA


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