Sounds like a float vale to me. As you had them rebuilt recently the
rebuilder might have used Gross jets. I've heard a lot of complains about
them over the years.
One of the great things about this list, Matthew. You (virtually) never get a
condescending answer to any question. Regardless of how simple it is or how
many time it has been asked. We were all new to Roadsters at one time or
another.
Best regards,
Fred Schroeder
roadster@schroeder-family.us
Home page: http://schroeder-family.us
NRA Life Member
Behold the superfluous. They are always sick. They
vomit their gall and call it a newspaper.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1844-1900
----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Cox
To: roadster list
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:25 AM
Subject: If you lit a match in my garage, you would blow it all to hades...
Hey everybody...
Short story: I have gas spilling out of my front carb overflow pipe.
Long story: I drove the car to the gym tonight (5 miles) and when I pulled
into the parking spot, the car was stalling out and begging for gas. I could
smell gas, but not see any underneath the car, although it was pretty dark.
So I go into the gym, work out, come back out expecting to have to call a
tow truck, but the car starts up pretty rough and zooms to life when I give it
heavy gas. I drive home and it's driving great at speed, but when I stop at a
light it starts to sputter and wants to die unless I stomp on the gas.
I putter home, pull in the garage, pop the hood and the front carb overflow
is GUSHING gas. My garage reeks. My HOUSE reeks.
2 things:
1) I feel happy to be alive
2) Is this as simple as buying a new float shut off valve?
These carbs are recently professionally rebuilt and are PRISTINE (+- 500
miles on them). I open up the float chamber and everything looks fine. The
shut off valve appears fine, but I don't know exactly what I should be looking
for on it.
I put in a new fuel pump 2 weeks ago, and this is the first time I have run
the car for than a couple of minutes here and there. I initially thought that
there was a problem with the fuel pump install (air getting in the line or
something. I have noticed that the fuel filter doesn't completely fill up with
fuel. Is this normal?), but when I saw the gushing fuel, I figured that it is
pumping fine.
Anyway... You're all saying, "You idiot! The answer is obvious!" and I'm
saying, "Please tell me what to fix."
Ideas?
Matthew in Phoenix
'67 1600
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