How to rig temp fuel delivery

[alexiskai]

I'm helping someone sell a Tudor that's been in storage for a few years. I want to show in the listing that the car will run. But I'm pretty sure the carb is gummed up, and there may be rust in the tank. I want to rig a temp fuel system just to confirm that it will run once the carb is fixed.

I have a working carb I can attach temporarily. I want to use a simple gravity-feed system with a jug and a flexible hose to feed the carb. The problem: I've never done this and I don't know how.

Can someone explain to me how this is done? Like, what kind of connectors do I need? What kind of hose do I need? What kind of container do I need? The whole thing is a mystery.

 

[Ordsgt]

I had to do a similar rig not to long ago. Rigged up a plastic gas mower fuel tank and ran a rubber hose with hose clamps onto the gas line to the carb, worked fine

 

[alexiskai]

OK, so you take the fuel line off the firewall-mounted filter and then you clamp the flexible hose to that on one end. Then you use a small tank or even a gas can on the other end. Seems reasonable. Thank you.

 

[nkaminar]

Before you do that, try to clean out the line from the tank and see if it will flow. You can dump about a gallon of gasoline with some tank cleaner in the tank, then shake the car to help clean it out. Toluene is a good cleaner.

 

[1crosscut]

Also I've found that in my experience that Model A's don't like it when a fuel line has a dip in it making the fuel run uphill to the carburetor. When hooking up a temporary tank I make sure the fuel line runs down hill all the way to the carburetor.

I have a steel fuel line that I cut off about four inches from the carburetor that I use to attach a flexible hose to and run that to my temporary tank.