Smoking ballast resistor ain't a good sign...huh?

The car started to run rough after I added some gas to the tank. The fuel gauge wasn't working then so I added 4 gallons of gas. Well that just stirred up the crap that had settled in the bottom of the tank. Car has been sitting for 4 years the previous owners told me. Well after doing some checking I discovered the tank was all rusty inside and adding gas surely sent some of the crap into my carb. So I replaced the tank, sending unit, cleaned out the fuel lines. Then added some gas and no luck trying to start. Then I removed the Holley one-barrel carb and with a friends help we cleaned it and used some parts from a rebuild kit. Put carb back on and still no catching/start.

So assuming that we did 'rebuilt' the carb correctly I then could only think that the problem is electrical. Maybe that's a bad assumption.

More later....off to work!



Glenn