I bought this truck a few days ago: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=687202&highlight=swear+followed+home&showall=1 I've been trying to get the A started. I managed to get it started today by putting my palm over the carb to give it choke. Choking it via the rod, it won't start, even though the butterfly is closing. Any idea what's going on? Thanks in advance, fellas
Does it have fresh gas in the tank? Old gas behaves like that. Also look for vacuum leaks, make sure the ignition system is working right, timing, and see if the engine has good compression
hahaha, Bill. It's alive! but it's seeping at the crank pulley and the side of the head. so, I continue to plug away.
dang, bill, you're mean. swapped out the intake and exhaust manifolds for different ones. runs better. replacing downpipe and muffler tomorrow. then i'm shelving it and getting back on the 34.
i ain't got no video machine, mike. but becky said we can buy one for the road trip, so maybe i'll get it earlier, like tomorrow.
I had the very same thing going on with a stock A a few years ago. new plugs, points condenser, cap, rotor, pulled the head and milled it .040 to get the warp out, hand lapped the carb base on sand paper on glass to get it flat, everytime I pulled the plugs, they looked sooty. I double checked the number on the new spark plugs, and that was what the book showed. I ordered four new ones one range hotter. Took a week to get them, screwed them in and it ran like a new car. Started better, idled smoother, ran great. Stupid people trying to make one part number work for all the stationary engines and all the model A's in the world were one heat range off for the A.
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