Re: finally a little green
Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:02 pm
Well over the last week I got the jack cleaned up and put back in (i believe my spare should also be green to match so it could be worked into rotation but i will need to come back to that), I got all the stainless trim put back on along with the rest of the weather stripping, emblems and all the decals except the stripe. When the stiper came to put the decals on he advised that he wouldn't use the stripe I had. It came with the car and was pretty old it had started to lift just a little at a few of the edges so I ordered a new one friday. I found this interesting the old stripe I had came with the car, it had a receipt in the bottom of the box dated for the spring of 1990 it was shipped to fort knox ky it came from Motor City Muscle in Detroit, who I cant find any info on now, but the interesting part was it cost 169.00 plus shipping way back in 1990 and that is exactly what I paid for mine from performance graphics 2 days ago. The bad news is I took it to my first event Saturday, it was an annual cruise in at my church, where the car got a lot of attention and compliments, however when I was coming home the car started missing and by the time I got home 15 miles away it was bucking and chugging and coughing through the carb. I parked it to let it cool off so I could get around the manifolds and stuff. I pulled the first plug and it had fuel dripping off it and was wet fauled, continued all of them were the same a couple cylinders even had some fuel drip out of them. checked to see I was getting fire by grounding out a plug wire, and I was. I pulled the air cleaner off and noticed the carb looked damp on the outside body section so I took the top off of it to see if the gasket was broke some place but it wasnt however the float bowls had a lot of fuel in them. I changed the plugs to a new set I had on the shelf and put on another new coil I had as well to see if it would make better spark and run again, and although the engine cranked better after that, I cant get it restarted. I am leaning toward the carb having a problem and flooding it out because I have had to get the floats adjusted a couple times it has always ran to rich since I it was rebuilt even though its been adjusted on a couple times. I have checked for vacuum leaks but I only have the vacuum pod on the choke pull off, the vacuum pod on the distributor, and the pcv valve, no other vacuums on the car the manifold had a vacuum nipple on it but since I dont have a brake booster I just put a rubber vacuum cap on it. Any ideas of something to check would be great.