What is wrong?!
Lead Driver
Joined: Dec 2012
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Try to run it off a fresh can of known good fuel . Bypass the tank . Bottle feed it and see if it runs . Pull a plug if it will not start and see if it is flooded . Some plugs do not do well after being flooded . If you have good spark , good compression , at the proper time ... Fuel or Fuel Air Mixture is your problem .
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I will definitely try to bottle feed it. That's a great idea! I'll check the exhaust the muffler is a little banger up but it lets out before the rear axle and is between the frame rails and it's lifted so it's pretty hard to get anything up in it but I will check it. Thanks for all the advice. I'll have an update soon hopefully. Any other advice would still be greatly appreciated
Lead Driver
Joined: Jul 2009
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From: Sheffield, AL
It was running fine. Then I was pulling some bushes out for my neighbor and it just all of a sudden started running like crap. I thought it was the carb because I didn't mess with the timing at all. I tried my friends carb on it and it didn't help at all. So I figured maybe something happened with the timing so I tried to adjust the distributor and noticed that it wasn't getting better. So that's when I decided to try and reset the timing by finding top dead center. I find it by having my friend hold his finger over the hole until it blows out then put a dowel in the hole and turn it until the dowel stops moving up. I have done a compression test on the truck and all of my readings were good. I just don't know what could have happened.
Is it possible that something pulled on the fuel line? Check the rubber sections from the tank forward to the engine.
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