Thanks to all that responded to my queries about the GT6 and the carb
questions. The car is in the hands of the new owner and he is excited to
have one so much nicer than the '68 he already had.
I thought I would share his first day with the car with the list....The
car has been sitting for 8 or so years. However before the car was
parked it had some work done on it. It had a fresh tune up. The carbs
were off of the car and sitting in the rear cargo area. The clip for the
float on the rear carb broken. The fuel pump was new. Evidently
something was wrong when the PO had stopped driving it and there were
some attempt made to figure out what was wrong with it. When I tried to
turn it over I found that it had no spark ( I fixed that by readjusting
the points ) We pulled the carbs off of the '68 and bolted them onto the
'72.
We then decided to fill the tank and see if we could get it to run.
The car was still on the trailer so we took the whole car to the gas
station instead of filling several gas cans. Randy started to fill it up
and I was standing on the trailer beside the car. I went to turn and get
off the trailer. My foot slipped. Looked down and saw that the bed of
the trailer was soaked with gas and I was standing in the middle of it!
I yelled for him to stop.
Randy looked under the car and saw that the gas line had been cut and the
gas was coming out at a pretty good flow rate! Randy plugged the fuel
line with his finger and I pulled the car and trailer away from the
pumps. I looked for something to stick in the pipe other than his finger
while he was flooding the trailer with a water hose. I couldn't get any
rags to go into the tube. I found out a few things in those seconds that
seemed like an hour....that styrofoam melts in gas, neither of us had any
chewing gum, the toothless Waffle House -chain smoking- waitress who
came out to look at what was going on, was really dumber than dirt.
Finally a tissue stopped the flow. We took it back to his house and fix
the cut in the line with a piece of fuel line. We then put some more gas
in it from the gas can Randy had and tried to get it going. No gas got
to the carbs. I felt for any suction or pumping action on the fuel pump
and felt nothing. I changed the fuel pump from the 'new' one to the one
off the '68. I could feel that fuel pump trying, but still no gas was
coming into the carbs. I tried to blow though the fuel line and it is
stopped up tighter than ...Well we won't go there, suffice it to say that
it looks like perhaps the problems that caused the car to get parked has
something to do with the fuel not flowing from the tank to the fuel pump.
hmmm, what cha think might have happened to cause this car to be picked
up by yours truly for so cheap? The car had a fuel problem. The PO
pulled off the carbs, and got rebuild kits but maybe decided it was too
complicated? PO had no gas going to the carbs, replaced the fuel pump,
still no gas to the carbs, Tried to see if gas would come out of the
tank and cut the line, gas emptied out of the tank. He went inside to
drink a beer. The car sat for 8 some years and his wife finally called
the junk man to come get it. The junk man had no idea what it was and I
got the call.
What do you think.... possible? I'll never know. Moral? On an unknown
car, check it out for dangerous conditions before you start to mess with
it...you never know what the PO or even worse, a DPO has done to it
before you got it!
Hugh R. McAleer
Jonesboro, GA
'68 TR 250,
'71 Stag '73 Stag
75 TR7 Victory Edition - 4 Sale!
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