After 6 long weeks, I finally got my fuel tank back Friday. I reinstalled the tank along with a new fuel line all the way up to the fuel pump this weekend. Everything went great until I went to start it today. No leaks anywhere in the lines but the carb is leaking and leaking badly. I have not touched the carbuerator at all so I am not sure what the issue is. The only thing different is that I took the old in line fuel filter out for the moment but I don't think that should make a difference. It's looks to be leaking down the back side of the carby. I did not let it run long but when it was running it was running rough. It's a 216 with a Rochester carbuerator. I am a novice at the engine stuff so any help is, as always, greatly appreciated. On a positive note, I did put new tail lights on and rewired the whole back end. It cured my stop and tail light problems. They work great.
Simple~ You need to have Sir Anthony Hopkins from the movie "The World's Fastest Indian" work on it. Okay~ this won't help your problem, but while you're waiting for advice, get this movie and watch it! It's all about my "signature" and the way we need to take on life. My advice for your carby is a Carter?
My Rochester 'B' Runneth over O-kay ! you have a Rochester Series 'B; carby and the float is prolly stuck or has a tiny bit of sppoge lodged in the float valve ~ easiest thing to do is this : disconnect the fuel inlet pipe and plug it , start the engine and let it run untill it runs out of fuel . re-connect the pipe and re-start it , this often washed the bit of spooge out of the float valve as when the engine runs out of gas , the valve falls wide open . Or , you can take your large plastic handled screwdriver by the tip and *WHACK* the side of the carby with the handle , this often jars a stuck float loose . All else fails , take the top off the carby , paying close attention to what goes where and fix it , whatever you find wrong . DO NOT mail your carby away in an exchange scheme ! _NO_ ! you'll get some piece of junk back and it won't ever work and your original will be gone forever . Carby work is simple but you must be _very_ delicate with it . Lastly , replace the filter as it should never , ever be operated without a fuel filter just in front of the carby . I hope this helped ?.
Love it Nate!! I've used the "screwdriver" trick and rebuild the "delicate" carb. Never hear the "disconnect and run it out of gas" one before; makes sense!! I'll try that next time before the carb disassembly. thanks,
Always nice to hear of a sucess story , glad I was of help . In 1976 I was out in the middle of nowhere in my '46 Chevy 3100 in August , no tools of course when the carby decided to begin flooding , I don't know what got into my fuel tank but a _LOT_ of spooge suddenly came into the fuel , blocking the float valve open , I located two nickles and a Pepsi Cola pencil stub (they were round) , used the two nickles to squeeze the fuel hose clamp and remove the hose , plugged the open hose with the pencil stub and re-started the engine , ran it out of fuel and then re-connected the fuel hose and the rush of fuel over the now wide open float valve washed off the spooge and I was able to motor on another 25 miles or so , that was a long , _long_ drive home as every 25 ~ 50 miles or so it'd flood again and I had to repeat but I had NO $ , NO tools and I was far away from home , no one to call even if there had been a telephone......
