Someone please help me
Let's try it this way.
Since we have nothing to start with, I'll post a representative picture below:
The vacuum advance gets plugged into the nipple on the passenger side of the carb. Cap or plug any other ports, EXCEPT the one on top of the float bowl (has black cap in above pic). This is a bowl vent and needs to be left open.
Gently screw in the two idle mixture screws until they stop, then open them back up 1 1/2 - 2 turns. this will give you an initial idle mix adjustment. And for initial troubleshooting, wire the choke in the open position.
Try firing it up- any better? If not, make sure it's getting fuel to the carb- work the linkage and make sure the accelerator pump gives a good squirt.
If it still idles okay, but dies when you give it some throttle, it could easily be a dirty carb- runs good on the idle circuit but starves out when it gets on the main circuit. Carb rebuild/cleaning time.
And just in case, are you sure you didn't put the distributor in 180* out? If so, you can sometimes get them to start, but will run like crap and stall out at anything off idle...
Let's try it this way.
Since we have nothing to start with, I'll post a representative picture below:
The vacuum advance gets plugged into the nipple on the passenger side of the carb. Cap or plug any other ports, EXCEPT the one on top of the float bowl (has black cap in above pic). This is a bowl vent and needs to be left open.
Gently screw in the two idle mixture screws until they stop, then open them back up 1 1/2 - 2 turns. this will give you an initial idle mix adjustment. And for initial troubleshooting, wire the choke in the open position.
Try firing it up- any better? If not, make sure it's getting fuel to the carb- work the linkage and make sure the accelerator pump gives a good squirt.
If it still idles okay, but dies when you give it some throttle, it could easily be a dirty carb- runs good on the idle circuit but starves out when it gets on the main circuit. Carb rebuild/cleaning time.
And just in case, are you sure you didn't put the distributor in 180* out? If so, you can sometimes get them to start, but will run like crap and stall out at anything off idle...
