Hour 14, and I'm going to bed

[Rebeltilldeath3]

So it's 9am, I've been working non-stop on my new truck since 7pm last night, and I'm calling it quits so I can sleep.

I siphoned out as much varnish as I could from the gas tank, threw on a new fuel pump, added 2 gallons of fresh fuel.  It will sometimes start up without eyther, but only run for about 10 seconds max.  Then sometimes it won't even start on eyther.  Most of the time I would turn the key, get a pop from the exhaust, then nothing.  Spray some eyther in, run for 2 seconds, push the gas down twice, then die.

I'm down to either, lots of varnish left in the tank, varnish clogging the lines, carb fawked up.

BTW, the truck has sat since 98.  Kinda odd to think that was 7 years ago.


I went to autozone this morning and damn near killed the guy working.  I wasn't sure of the ID of the fuel line (buying fuel line to run straight from the pump into a gas jug), so I asked if he could pull out a fuel pump to match it up.  He charged me for the fuel pump...........   After being up all night, not getting anywhere with the truck, and needing rest, I flipped on the guy.  Autozone is officially out of my book.

[eddyb]

I know where there is a tank out of an '85 if that will help.

[Rebeltilldeath3]

I'm going to make a cell for it eventually.

I narrowed it down to the carb, nothings moving past the banjo bolt.

[kyle_22r]

sounds like the carb is varnished over -- rebuild time.

i'd take an air line and blow all the gunk back into the tank, then give it a good rinse with some nice volatile solvent.

[Rebeltilldeath3]

Only thing that sucks is that a few of the screws on the carb are completely rounded already, so I can't get the damn thing apart.  I took out the banjo bolt and sprayed damn near half a can of carb cleaner into it, it did clean it up a little.  I sprayed every opening there was, I'll let it set over night and try tomorrow.

[WHITE_TRASH]

Fill the float bowl with carb cleaner and let it sit.  Do that a couple times and then start it on carb cleaner.  Spray a lot of it in the engine as its running and while its at high rpm's put your hand over the carb opening to chok it back. That'll suck a bunch of crap through the carb and into the intake to be burned.

[Rebeltilldeath3]

I can't even take the top half off to get to the floats.

A few screws are stripped.  I assume there's only 6 holding it down, since that's all I found, but two are stripped.

[WHITE_TRASH]

You dont have to take the carb apart to do it.  Just spray the carb cleaner through a straw into the float vent on top of the carb.

[Rebeltilldeath3]

Finally got pics of the new truck.

It's the white one.  Red one is my daily driver.  Blue one is the one my buddy bought for $700

[Duffil]

how much lift is on the blue rig? and how wide are those tires? stock?  or maybe its the flares that make it look odd?

[Rebeltilldeath3]

3" body on the blue one.

They're stock tires.  The 33"s that were on it were bald as can be.

[Duffil]

ok...cuz it looks a little odd...makes sense now...