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Might the brass floats also have pinholes, causing them to fill with fuel and preventing them from rising as they should? The new nitro phyll floats solve that issue. If not, I’d suspect the distributor (internal ground wire or advence weights). Might also be worth buying another Pertronix module and a 3-ohm coil (always smart to have a spare along anyway) and see if it isn’t one of those. Still, it sounds more and more like an advance problem if the engine won’t reverse. <br><br><br><div class="yahoo-signature"><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aol-news-email-weather-video/id646100661">Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS</a><br></div><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 2:49 PM, Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv8100604757"><div>
re: "The pump pumps normally and each time I pulled the float bowl
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Which type/brand of pump do you have? I've seen pumps, both points
and SS, do some unexplainable things. Another thought: something in
the tank that intermittently blocks the pickup. We bought a used
tank for our BN2 and experienced erratic behavior from the engine;
my dad finally tracked it down to a pinhole leak near where the
pickup was soldered to the tank. Dad surmised the flux used to
facilitate the soldering eventually etched the hole (the tank was
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<div id="yiv8100604757yqt95592" class="yiv8100604757yqt0783226228"><div class="yiv8100604757moz-cite-prefix">On 9/20/2023 7:46 AM, Tom Felts via
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<div style="color:#000000;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">Since having the car towed home I have checked all
connections in the ignition system, pulled the distributor
base plate out and cleaned it--the the two pieces were very
tight. I have let her run in the garage for long periods of
time and she has not shut down again so I haven't been able
to check spark. </div>
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before she would start again then shut down. Then start,
then shut down. </div>
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approach, but without being able to check spark it seemed
appropriate to change out components. </div>
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thought it might be a fuel supply issue. So---I pulled the
float bowl covers and all was ok there--also pulled and
cleaned the carbs. If the float bowl jets were stuck in a
closed position it would get no gas and eventually shut
down---but---both would have to stick so each carb wouldn't
get gas. this seems like an unlikely condition.</div>
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be dumping gas out of the overflow tubes---so, again,
unlikely since it would still run. I have already changed
fuel filter and blew out the line. The pump pumps normally
and each time I pulled the float bowl caps, they have been
full of gas. So--I have basically ruled out fuel starvation
as a cause. </div>
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shutdown------so, as I mentioned, I can't ch spark</div>
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