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Just as a follow up, I drove home and it was like a different car. I was keeping up with freeway traffic and the car didn't sputter or skip a beat. 'll have another look for some sort of filter in front of the shutoff. The shutoff valve on this car is a different style petcock than what...

SOLVED: Weber carb conversion power loss & backfire SOLVED! Thank you, everyone for the helpful suggestions. The issue turned out to be a weak fuel pump. It made plenty of noise and if I released the line from the carb it would pump fuel into a pony tank. I have no way to gauge the...

Thanks for the words of advice. I'll start checking things off the list and see what we can do!

Looking for some advice from someone experienced with the Weber conversion. I've recently acquired a 1930 Town Sedan. The previous owner was unfortunately sick for a while and the car sat for a couple years before coming home with me. He made some upgrades: - 12V conversion - Weber 2...

I thought I would post back with the results of a few days looking at it with a friend who is also extremely well-versed in Model A. THE CAR IS RUNNING We found that internal to the distributor, there was a dead short. It didn't happen all the time, just intermittently. And hence the fuse...

Thanks everybody. I guess the alternator is something to look into that I had not thought about previously. I do have a couple of questions about that: #1: How to test if the engine doesn't run? I guess pull it and take it somewhere... #2: Still doesn't explain why the engine would...

Yes sir, the Ammeter would move up to the charging area when the engine would get some RPMs. The previous owner (owned the car since the 1960's) restored it in the early 1990's. The running configuration had not been changed since then, and has not been modified under my care. So is...

Hi Marc, Yes, the car is positive ground, positive ground alternator. 6V. Since buying the car (before we had the problem) I've added a rock guard for the radiator. That's it. I put a 6V coil from Macs on it in the course of getting it running between issues. This wouldn't be somehow...

Hi everybody. Here's my 2nd post about this since it has now happened twice, and I'm obviously not getting something right. This is a 31 Model A Tudor, stock configuration except for the addition of an alternator, a master fuse mounted atop the starter, and turn signals. Initial event...

Hi guys, thanks for all the input. I've had limited time over the past few days to tinker, but my notes so far: Although my profession has me working with electricity (-48VDC to 400VDC, 110VAC to 480VAC) every day, I haven't owned an analog multimeter for many years. Will try to dig one...

31 Model A, 6V system with alternator. We took the car for a ride a couple days ago and everything was running great. Suddenly and without warning, the car began backfiring horribly and lost power. I quickly determined there was no electric power. Got the car pulled over, found that the main...