New guy that needs distributor help

is there any vacuum in the manifolds? maybe you have stuck intake valves. Can you feel suction when you place your hand over the carburetor inlet?
 
Be for I ever started it i took the manifolds off and checked/oiled the valves and oiled the cylinders. I spun it over by hand several times to make sure nothing was hanging up so i should have vacum.
 
Tibor said:
Be for I ever started it i took the manifolds off and checked/oiled the valves and oiled the cylinders. I spun it over by hand several times to make sure nothing was hanging up so i should have vacum.
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But do you? Does fuel come out of the carb if you choke it? Clogged jets?
 
I choke it and no fuel comes out. I removed all of the jets, blew through them. and and cleaned the whole carb, and checked the needle/seat before i tried to run here. If my valves are working i would assume i have proper vacume becuase i have bad or leaking gaskets anywhere i can see.
 
Put the trans in neutral, place your hand over the air horn on the carb, reach over and grab the starter rod with the other hand, press it down so the contacts engage and crank the engine over. Can you feel suction? It should be substantial.
 
if you do have suction, and assuming the cam shaft is moving, remove the main jet cap/drain at the bottom of the carburetor and see if fuel flows out. If it does, then fuel is getting to the main jet. If it is getting there, check the fuel level in the bowl. Doing this requires a special tube tool that connects to the main jet cap drain orifice, bends up the side of the bowl so you can see the fuel level. Its similar to those glass tubes on the outside of commercial coffee pots that indicate coffee level. It should be 5/8ths inch below the gasket surface. If the float is set too low, fuel will not flow out the main jet without extraordinary vacuum. Without the tool, you can roughly estimate if the float is right by checking to see if it rests with the seam parallel to the gasket surface when you invert the top. Its common for today's float valve gaskets to be so thick that the float rests too low. The float is adjusted by using vary-ing thickness of gaskets to get the float parallel. It is fine tuned using the visible tube tool.
 
A quicker check to start sorting the problem...while it is cranking, give it a shot of starting fluid. It should fire a few times at least if engine and ignition are working to any extent, putting carb repairs into the spotlight. If it doesn't even try...you have problems beyond the carb, possibly multiple ones.
 
Well this is what i have done sofar. Completely went through the dist and rewired it. New plugs. oiled the cyls and valves, put a new belt on. Took the sarter of and cleaned it up and rewired it, New battery. Went through and cleaned the carb including blowing through the jets. I put my hand up to the air horn and it sucked it up against the carburetor.

We have success this 83 year old jalopy is back to life. Thanks for all your help guys im sure i will need it again in future. It runs a little rough and needs to be fined tuned but that is expected.
 
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