Re: Morticus
Posted by kevinpackard On 2023/7/22 18:23:10
Some progress, but not as much as we had hoped for.
Started off last night by draining the old oil, removing the old filter and suctioning all the dirty oil out of the filter housing. The oil filter was a Purolator P-70....it looked pretty vintage. No idea how old it is.
New oil, Chevron Delo 15W-40 (non-synthetic diesel oil with zinc). New filter NAPA 1080. Added about half a quart of MMO for good measure. Installed a brass tee fitting where the oil pressure switch connects, then connected an oil pressure gauge to mount under the dash. Started the car and let it warm up to temperature for about 10 minutes....ran okay, but not totally smooth and I don't think we've picked up #8 yet.
Today we intended to do some small test drives. Put the valve covers and fender access panel back, tires back on. Adjusted the brakes all the way around (have not replaced ay brake parts yet).
We cleaned the very yellow whitewalls with some Bleche White and Magic Eraser. It really helped. Not perfect, but a big improvement.
Noticed that the plastic fuel filter they had put on had failed and the filter element was floating around inside. Replaced it with a metal filter.
Got the car out of the shop, got about 200 yards down the driveway and it died. Couldn't hardly get it to start again. Had to tow it back to the shop with my truck.
We've been struggling to start it ever since. We figured maybe the new filter element was restricting, so we cleaned up the stock Carter fuel bowl, put in a modern filter and installed with a new hard line from the fuel pump. No change.
Removed the carb and opened it up. Float bowl had a 1/4" layer of crud at the bottom. We assume when the first fuel filter failed that it let a bunch of junk into the carb and clogged it up. We cannibalized my old carb that I had previously rebuilt, and mixed and matched parts. Unfortunately the "rebuild" did not help.
It seems that fuel is not making it to the carb. If we fill the float bowl by hand it will start (not easily) and run until the fuel is drained from the float bowl. There is fuel in the fuel bowl outside the carb, but it's not getting to the carb. Needle and seat maybe? Something is not right. Regardless, we are going to rebuild the original carb....it is in much better condition than the replacement one that came on the car. Morticus is going to tackle that one....it will be a good learning experience.
-Kevin
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Old oil filter.jpg (95.35 KB)
Yellowed white walls.jpg (97.58 KB)
Cleaned up.jpg (127.17 KB)
Out of the shop.jpg (301.87 KB)
Original fuel bowl, damaged filter.jpg (121.88 KB)
Cleaned up filter.jpg (95.24 KB)
Crud in the float bowl.jpg (98.85 KB)
Clogged seat filter.jpg (78.67 KB)
Fuel in the bowl.jpg (110.58 KB)
Original carb, not rebuilt.jpg (97.74 KB)
Started off last night by draining the old oil, removing the old filter and suctioning all the dirty oil out of the filter housing. The oil filter was a Purolator P-70....it looked pretty vintage. No idea how old it is.
New oil, Chevron Delo 15W-40 (non-synthetic diesel oil with zinc). New filter NAPA 1080. Added about half a quart of MMO for good measure. Installed a brass tee fitting where the oil pressure switch connects, then connected an oil pressure gauge to mount under the dash. Started the car and let it warm up to temperature for about 10 minutes....ran okay, but not totally smooth and I don't think we've picked up #8 yet.
Today we intended to do some small test drives. Put the valve covers and fender access panel back, tires back on. Adjusted the brakes all the way around (have not replaced ay brake parts yet).
We cleaned the very yellow whitewalls with some Bleche White and Magic Eraser. It really helped. Not perfect, but a big improvement.
Noticed that the plastic fuel filter they had put on had failed and the filter element was floating around inside. Replaced it with a metal filter.
Got the car out of the shop, got about 200 yards down the driveway and it died. Couldn't hardly get it to start again. Had to tow it back to the shop with my truck.
We've been struggling to start it ever since. We figured maybe the new filter element was restricting, so we cleaned up the stock Carter fuel bowl, put in a modern filter and installed with a new hard line from the fuel pump. No change.
Removed the carb and opened it up. Float bowl had a 1/4" layer of crud at the bottom. We assume when the first fuel filter failed that it let a bunch of junk into the carb and clogged it up. We cannibalized my old carb that I had previously rebuilt, and mixed and matched parts. Unfortunately the "rebuild" did not help.
It seems that fuel is not making it to the carb. If we fill the float bowl by hand it will start (not easily) and run until the fuel is drained from the float bowl. There is fuel in the fuel bowl outside the carb, but it's not getting to the carb. Needle and seat maybe? Something is not right. Regardless, we are going to rebuild the original carb....it is in much better condition than the replacement one that came on the car. Morticus is going to tackle that one....it will be a good learning experience.
-Kevin
Attach file:
Old oil filter.jpg (95.35 KB) Yellowed white walls.jpg (97.58 KB) Cleaned up.jpg (127.17 KB) Out of the shop.jpg (301.87 KB)
Original fuel bowl, damaged filter.jpg (121.88 KB)
Cleaned up filter.jpg (95.24 KB) Crud in the float bowl.jpg (98.85 KB) Clogged seat filter.jpg (78.67 KB) Fuel in the bowl.jpg (110.58 KB)
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