Did you know?

Something a lot of people apparently don’t know, or never considered.
Holley style carburetors use two float bowls, one primary that the engine runs on normally and the other is for the secondary circuit.
Let’s say you do a lot of in town low speed driving.
That fuel in the secondary bowl sits in there until the throttle is opened far enough to use that fuel.
Heated and cooled over and over again from normal daily driving.
If you only cruise around you have some pretty nasty stuff in that secondary float bowl.
I realize some are going to say they step on all the time, but a lot don’t.

I had to explain this to a guy who’s fuel pump died, because he saw his double pumper Holley squirt fuel and wanted to argue that the pump was working.
(Only the secondary barrels accelerator pump shot worked and only because it was a double pumper carb)
Primary float bowl was empty.
So when he pumped the throttle the engine would fire up for a couple of seconds and then die again.
If you hardly ever use the secondary function of your carb, you might consider pulling one of the lower bowl screws out so the bowl refills with fresh fuel once in awhile.

Or, just tell the officer you had to get that old fuel out. :D