stock 318 won't start

Spill some gas in the carb first to see if it sparks to life.

If your pumping the carb from the pedal or the arm (As if the pedal was being pushed down by a foot) and you see no gas coming out, the accelerator pump is either bad or the passage is clogged. Double check that the carb has fuel in it.


A few things you'll need to rebuild the carb that your going to need is a solution to clean the carb. Most off the shelf cans (Gallon sized) carb cleaner aren't that strong anymore. The carbon build on in the carbs throat area will not come clean. Carb cleaner in a can will do it with lint less towels will do the job.

Rebuilding a carb is easy. It'll take some time. Lay all the parts out on the table in some order that you figure out so re-assembly is easier. I like to lay my parts out on a towel.

I started rebuilding carbs with the book about Carter carbs (Everything you wanted to know about Carter carbs and even things you didn't want to know.) They have step by step instructions and decent pictures to do the job for all of Carters 4bbl. carbs. Edelbrock's carbs are cast by Weber and are copies of the Carter carbs. (Save the Edelbrock Thunder series AFB/AVS hybrid style carb.)