Re: Car won't start without priming carb

Posted by fredkanter On 2016/10/11 7:45:22

Instead of armchair theorizing I almost always rely on my actual experiences of the past 56 years. I've had the above problem on numerous cars, the latest on our 25,000 mile 52 Patrician factory show car.

I drove out to the 2015 national meet in Reading PA on a hot hot summer day, it ran perfectly and it drove perfectly on its 4 original tires. So much for "replace them after 5 years!"On the return trip, again on a hot day, it stalled when coming to a stop from 50 mph and would not restart.

On analysis the accel pump was not working and it was caused by the external accel pump linkage becoming disconnected because the clip fell off. Cranking it with my hand over the carb made it start immediately.

So much for "vapor lock" again.