Starting problems

[Evnas]

Parked her last night, she was running like a champ. Go to start her this morning and she cranks just fine, spark is good, she sounds like she wants to kick over and start (almost did a couple times), but she just wont.

I took off the air cleaner to look at the carb, and this is what I found...now I'm no carb expert (all I've ever dealt with is fuel injection), but isn't the closed plate in the pictures supposed to be open? I also took some pictures of the linkage, so you experts can tell me is something is missing or not

BTW, its a 74 Scamp, 318

Thanks in advance guys

 

[chasduster]

All looks good their......That is the choke it will automatically open cause it is electric......look in the carb and pump the gas with your hand and see if it sprays fuel into carb

 

[Evnas]

All looks good their......That is the choke it will automatically open cause it is electric......look in the carb and pump the gas with your hand and see if it sprays fuel into carb

Ahh, I was thinking that was the throttle plate. Shows how much I know about anything older than the 80's, lol

Where exactly should the spray be coming out of, so I know where to look? Like I said, I'm no expert when it comes to carbs (well, I'm a complete novice in that respect, lol)

I also did pull off the main fuel line to the carb and had my girlfriend crank it over. It put out good fuel so I know there isn't a blockage pre-carb.

Also, when it "sounds like it wants to start", it's only with the pedal to the floor. Less than that, and nothing.

 

[chasduster]

Good on the feul line to check for fuel pressure....if you open that choke cover thing, w' your fingure and look towards the front of the carb and pump the gas with hand...you should see it spray into engine......you might have flooded it....you may have to hold to the floor and crank it over to it fires..may have to put a clothes pin on the choke cover so that it stays open when cranking

 

[RedFish]

May be just flooded. Use a screw driver to block that choke baffle wide open. Pumping the peddle just floods it worse. Hold the pedal to the floor and crank it till it blows itself out and runs again. Lets hope it hasn't jumped time ( fingers crossed here ).
If it floods repeatedly we'll need to hunt a problem . Common cause are float level in fuel bowl wrong for whatever reason, or the primary choke pul isn't working.

 

[Evnas]

Well, it seems like the choke plate is stuck good...what are my options here? Any ideas to get the plate unstuck? Should I buy a rebuild kit (though I have no idea how to rebuild a carb)? Should I just buy a new Edelbrock carb?

I've never had to deal with this situation so I'm not sure what my options are and all.