Ken,
Have you checked for good flow of petrol all the way to the carb?
If you don't find an obvious problem with the fuel system... you might check
and see if you're running into the same problem my '73 1500 had: I'd let
the car sit over a hot Texas summer and when I went to start it up it would
fire right up, rev up once good and high... and die. Without going through
all the tedious details of the troubleshooting I did, it turned out that the
centrifugal weights in the distributor were "gummed" up and would stick in
the full out position. The first hard rev would push them out all the way,
and it'd take several hours for them to "flow" back to the rest position.
Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Sykes [SMTP:s1500@worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 2:16 PM
> To: Ken Tharp
> Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: no gasoline or ????
>
> Ken,
>
> Next time the car is in "won't run/start" condition, try opening the
> fuel filler cap. If you can hear air rushing in the opening,
> your fuel tank vent line is plugged. This will cause the problem
> you describe. Opening the filler cap would also temporarily solve
> the problem.
>
> -Bob
>
>
> Ken Tharp wrote:
>
> > So, what could it be? Fuel pump? Vapor lock? (I don't think so, since it
> > wasn't that hot this morning and the car was cold.) Something wrong with
> > the carburetor? Fuel filter clogged? (I just replaced the fuel filter a
> > week ago when the same thing happened - we thought that was the solution
> > at that time, but obviously it wasn't.) Any other ideas?
>
> --
> Bob Sykes
> "You can't beat your brains for entertainment."
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