This old car makes be feel ignorant. Basic Questions inside.

So what have you checked, and what have you concluded from those checks

Since this seems? to be an ongoing problem, it seems to me you should be able to make some checks.......................

"Rig" a way and carry tools, rags, etc in the trunk so that you can "quickly deploy." When the engine is hot and has been parked, rig your spark test gap and test and evaluate the spark. If this doesn't seem relevent,.....................

before you start it, remove the air filter and check for accelerator pump action without disturbing anything, IE don't crank it. If no fuel, or a "poor squirt," or if the thing reeks of gas, it's probably all boiled out of the carb.

The best things I did with mine before going EFI was

removed mechanical pump, installed a rear mount electric

Installed a fuel return line, use Wix 33040 -5/16- or 33041 -3/8- filter with a built in return orifice, and

installed a heat isolator carb base gasket.

These were not a complete cure, but rather a VAST improvement. I b'lieve around here fuel is about 15% alky.


I really don't think it's spark related. If I pour fuel down the carb it will catch and I have to continue trickling fuel into the carb until it regains fuel prime.

Then it will run a few minutes until losing fuel prime again. I'll mess around with it this weekend and see how it goes.