12 Mar
2001
12 Mar
'01
2:24 a.m.
Thanks for jogging my memory... Carters are notorious for porous
castings. The Thermo-quad especially. You might be right Mike.
Another possibility is the lack of a heat shield between the carb and
the manifold allowing the engine heat to boil off the fuel in the bowl
after shutdown.
IMHO, the best solution is to replace the carb with a 600cfm vacuum
secondary Holley.
And that's the only comment I'm a gonna make. (Is the original poster
still around?)
Jim
Mike Ford wrote:
I have a 1969 AMC Javelin SST - 343 with a Carter
AFB Carb - my problem
is that after the car has sat for a day or two it is very hard to start -
it requires pumping the accelerator at least 8 times - once it is running
normally it starts fine. A new fuel pump was installed and a carb kit.
If your like me, then one of the extra pieces in the carb kit apparently
was important.
My guess is that the gas is leaking out of the carb after sitting a few
days, or leaking out of some portion of the carb.