Hi guys trying to find out eactly what might happening.Took the car out thursday for the first time and it seemed to run really good.. had it out about 203 hrs to the first cruise.Anyway when I got home seemed alittle sluggish as I pulled into the drive.Wanted to start it up this morning and wouldn't start .Tried to turn over but that was it no pop no nothing. The only thing I noticed is there there wasn't any smell of gas as when you flood it out.The only thing I did this spring was change out the spark plugs and the gap at .045.Wondering if maybe my fuel pump went bad ? Pretty sure it is oprginal.Even if it didn't start thought I would smell something.Any idea's..

Thanks Terry

8 hours ago, TerryH said:

Hi guys trying to find out eactly what might happening.Took the car out thursday for the first time and it seemed to run really good.. had it out about 203 hrs to the first cruise.Anyway when I got home seemed alittle sluggish as I pulled into the drive.Wanted to start it up this morning and wouldn't start .Tried to turn over but that was it no pop no nothing. The only thing I noticed is there there wasn't any smell of gas as when you flood it out.The only thing I did this spring was change out the spark plugs and the gap at .045.Wondering if maybe my fuel pump went bad ? Pretty sure it is oprginal.Even if it didn't start thought I would smell something.Any idea's..

Thanks Terry

Pop the air cleaner off terry and pull back the throttle , watch for a squirt from the accelerator pump down the carb... anything ???

if not check your fuel filter at the carb, and if you have any other filter in the line check em too. If ok

disconnect the fuel line off the carb 

stick it into a container , take the live wire off your coil and get some one to crank the motor over while you point the fuel hose into a container ..... any fuel ? 

If not it will be fuel pump

or blocked pick up in the tank

really dumb question at this point ,......

is yhere gas in the tank 

Thnaks 64 what I did was squirt some starting fluid in the carb and it fired up but only few a few seconds so disconnected the fuel line and figured I would clean the the gas filter and found it dry as a bone. No gas in the line or  anywhere else so went ahead and ordered a new fuel pump .Pretty sure it was orginal just like everything else I am finding just wearing out.

Better be gas even at 1 mile gallon should of had enough lol

 

Terry - if you spark plug gaps are .045 - those seems awfully wide unless you've switched to an HEI distributor. A stock non-HEI spark plug gap is .035-040.

Hey again Frosty yes switched it over to an he about two yrs ago pulled the old plugs and they were around .040 Seems ok at .045 but haven't ran it enough then the fuel pump went which it seems to be original

Damn 52 year old fuel pumps. They just don't seem to last!