Re: 1948 Standard Eight will not start

Posted by Dave Kenney On 2010/8/8 15:35:08

If it started once then I would check to see if you have gas pumping up to the carb. For starters (no pun intended) try looking down the carb throat while working the accelerator linkage and see if gas is squirting from the two pump jets. If nothing then you have a gas problem. Check that you have a good blue spark from the coil wire to the distributor. Pull the coil to distributor wire from the distributor and hold it about 1/4" from a the engine block anhd have soemone crank the engine. You might try doing a search on the site of the manuals and service letters etc.. Depending upon your mechanical knowledge some simple tests would likely determine the problem.