Three guesses why no fuel.

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TrailBeast

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First two guesses don’t count.
Neighbor brings home another car and tries to get it running, but no fuel to the carb.
First thing I tell him is to check the entire fuel line from the tank forward including any/all filters. (The one in the carb inlet included) because it’s a Qjet.
Then suspect the fuel pump.
First thing he does is go buy a new pump.
Problem is, he can’t get the new pump in because he doesn’t know about the actuator rod that has to be lifted first.
So he calls me over to help, and I lift the rod with my left index finger and pop the new pump in with my right hand.
So while the pump is still loose I work it up and down to make it pump, but something doesn’t sound right, and still no fuel.
I finished tightening it up and prime the carb a little.
She fires off but quickly runs out of fuel and dies.(3 times)
Still no fuel to the carb, so I asked if he checked all the lines. “No”
So while he is under the car checking lines I start to take the line loose at the carb and find that under the heater hoses and vacuum lines where we couldn’t see it,the steel line from the pump to the carb is twisted 360 degrees. (100 percent closed off)
Someone tried taking the large filter housing section off without taking the compression fitting loose first.
I cut that section out of the steel line and replaced it with 225 psi fuel injection hose and a new flare fitting to the carb.
Try it again and still no fuel to the carb.
This was the hose from the tank to the steel line.
Newbies, ugh.
It runs and drives now, but it’s still a GM piece of ****. :D
First thing he did was take it down and have skinny little 13 inch white wall tires put on brand new chrome spoked knock off wheels and blew a brand new tire a block from the tire shop.

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I seem to recall an old trick where you put a certain length bolt in to hold the fuel pump rod(small block Chevy) then install pump ,remove bolt and all is right in the world . and yes, some folks shouldn't open the hood of a vehicle.:)
 
Did anybody check to see if there is actually fuel in the gas tank?
Years ago I worked with a lady who had just bought a brand new car, drove it just a few miles from the dealership when it died and wouldn't restart. The dealership had it towed back to their service department and spent 3 days going over the car until they finally discovered it had simply run out of gas.
 
My Mantra, always preached but rarely listened to: "Always check the easiest/obvious things first. Don't overthink it." :BangHead:
 
No pictures of this motored wonder? You're gettin even more lame in your oldness.
 
I still remember back in the early 70's one day at my part time job at the auto hobby shop at NAS Miramar. A guy and his buddy were trying to fix a miss and do a tune up, and I ended up "out there." Here we are, cooked, cracked heat damaged plug wires and a severely cracked / carbon tracked cap and rotor. I don't know why it ran at all.
AND the punch line..........It was a GM and someone had forced installed the rotor 180 off and them evidently rotated the plug wires to fix that, so when I came along and installed the rotor CORRECTLY it wouldn't do anything except pop back through the carb

So I am trying to explain all this that is wrong to the owner and his friend and all they want to do is bullshit and giggle.

So I TOLD them, "I'm trying to tell you and teach something to you. Do you want to learn this or do you want to stand here and bullshit each other until the NEXT time you are standing at the side of the road?"

Some of these folks just cannot be helped. That is the way they go through life, and what enfuriates me, is some of them manage to obliviously bullshit their way through life---and do better than I have
 
Here is the idea, now more than ever.


And the you tube certified mechanics crack me up!

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A guy with a stock eliminator drag car had another guy drive for him for a while, health trouble. The owner was to work on it, the driver was not to tinker under the hood.

Well it was going fine for a weekend then started to cut out at top end and got to where it wouldn’t run at all. Each person though the other one was putting gas in it! Stock tank and it needed the weight of the fuel so it had lots to begin with.

They went though a lot of it before figuring it out,
 
Did anybody check to see if there is actually fuel in the gas tank?
Years ago I worked with a lady who had just bought a brand new car, drove it just a few miles from the dealership when it died and wouldn't restart. The dealership had it towed back to their service department and spent 3 days going over the car until they finally discovered it had simply run out of gas.
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
 
Did anybody check to see if there is actually fuel in the gas tank?
Years ago I worked with a lady who had just bought a brand new car, drove it just a few miles from the dealership when it died and wouldn't restart. The dealership had it towed back to their service department and spent 3 days going over the car until they finally discovered it had simply run out of gas.

I asked, and he said he had it filled while towing it home.

My Wife was on a trip with just her and the kids when her van stopped on Interstate 40 in the middle of nowhere.
She had it towed to the closest gas/service place and they charged her $150 to tell her she was out of gas.
She wasn’t used to what the gauge read on the hiway, only around town.
 
Did anybody check to see if there is actually fuel in the gas tank?
Years ago I worked with a lady who had just bought a brand new car, drove it just a few miles from the dealership when it died and wouldn't restart. The dealership had it towed back to their service department and spent 3 days going over the car until they finally discovered it had simply run out of gas.
Morons...I bet if they read the troubleshooting section of the shop manual they would have found it sooner...:)
 
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