<VV> Fuel Pump Issues

[Bryan Blackwell]

FWIW, I greatly prefer to use starting fluid for this sort of analysis - if the engine is going to fire, it will do so on ether.  If it doesn't fire, you know to look elsewhere.  Yes, using too much for too long is bad for the engine, but so is pouring gas into the cylinders.

--Bryan

On Apr 24, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Byron Comp wrote:

> I've encountered a similar problem now on my '64 restomod. Thanks to the help of a fellow VV-er, my engine is no longer headless and I'm ready to try firing it up again. But the new glass in-line filter shows no fuel in it and the engine won't run from what sounds like a lack of fuel. I replaced what I thought was my known-good mechanical pump (it was working when I began this repair saga) with one off my '63 parts car, but no-go with that one either. I've tried pouring a couple teaspoons of gas directly down the gullet of both carbs and then cranking it, but all I get from that is flooding followed by a couple backfires and right back to dry grinding. I plan to get my wife to go along to the shop tomorrow to turn the key while I drizzle in some gas, put that's not the real issue, is it?