Time for an engine swap - Need advice!
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Now that I think about it, I don't think it's the gas. I've let it sit for long periods before and never had any trouble. But who knows. I'm going to get a can of starting fluid and play with it this weekend. I assume with starting fluid it'll go, then I can let it idle a while, then shut it down for a little while and try and restart, then let it sit a few hours and try again, then overnight, you get the idea.
I just want something that starts every time damn it!
I just want something that starts every time damn it!
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Have you considered the possibility that it might have water in the gas? They make stuff you can pour in the tank that will dry that up, although I have heard that a bottle of rubbing alcohol works just as well. (Use at your own risk, rubbing alcohol is partially water as it is)
It just dawned on me that you could have trash in your fuel lines too. When I first drove my truck it ran like a dream from Bristol VA to Crossville TN. I then drove from Crossville to Fall Creek Falls and back. Then I drove it from Crossville to Bowling Green. When I got off the interstate at Lebanon and came up to a stop the engine just died. I fought it the rest of the way home. It would run but not idle.
There was lots of trash in the carb, best I could figure was that the idle circuit was just clogged up with junk and the main circuit wasn't. Could be that you've got some scum in the tank or in the lines and you keep sucking that through it.
It just dawned on me that you could have trash in your fuel lines too. When I first drove my truck it ran like a dream from Bristol VA to Crossville TN. I then drove from Crossville to Fall Creek Falls and back. Then I drove it from Crossville to Bowling Green. When I got off the interstate at Lebanon and came up to a stop the engine just died. I fought it the rest of the way home. It would run but not idle.
There was lots of trash in the carb, best I could figure was that the idle circuit was just clogged up with junk and the main circuit wasn't. Could be that you've got some scum in the tank or in the lines and you keep sucking that through it.
