There has to be a freaking answer!!!

Posted by Packard Newbie On 2018/5/12 21:09:13

I have continued on with trying all the suggestions and have reasoned through others to make sure that is not my problem. I changed the fuel regulator on my fuel pump to a 1-4 PSI and got it to 3 #'s, which is what the manual calls for. We reset the float in the carb, and started at 3/4 of a turn out on the air bleed screw and kept richening it by a quarter turn at a time. We go out of the yard, down a small hill to a cattle guard on the flat and stop to turn around. It doesn't stall. We come back and up the hill, which requires a bit of gas on the grade; we get to the top and go another couple of hundred yards on the flat and pull up in front of the shop - the car 'coasts to a halt' every time. This is the same problem I have been battling for over 2 years now and all the many things I have done to the car, while they have improved other things (like better starting and a smoother idle, etc.) but NOTHING I have done has changed the stalling problem. It SEEMS like a fuel thing.... the clear filter element immediately fills with fuel when I turn the ignition on and start the car. It starts beautifully, idles so smoothly, but when we put it under load and drive it, the stalling comes back. the fuel seems to diminish in the filter and yet when I disconnect the line, there is lots of pressure and if we just disconnect the hose from the carb altogether it pumps tons of fuel. The pump is 5-8 PSI and, as stated, we have it reduced to 3. I am willing to offer a reward to anyone who can peg this. The gentleman who is helping me is a machinist, mechanic and tinsmith, has remarkable diagnostic skills and a very astute mechanical sense. He is stumped - I am stumped. Anybody?? Anything???