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Yes but this would leave other symtoms like popping through the carb and tryying to start sounds to me it is only cranking from what he says and if the head gasket is bad enough it could be the cause of little or no compression

my guess would be a bad pump

only takes three things to make a motor run spark-you verified fuel-you verified compression ???????? do a compression test

not too far back i had a soob come into my shop with no covers and a alt belt snapped then wrapped up in the t belt, the covers take me a total of 10 min to remove and i'm to the belt of course in my time being a mechanic i've probably done around 40-50 t belts on soobs so a part of that time is expierience, i say keep the covers

Man sounds like your facing the same battles i am with my brat, but i rather enjoy what i am doing to the brat, Rust well i'm fixing to cut out the bed and form/cut a piece of sheet metal to replace it, just cut out all the rust under the doors and will be welding in some 4x2 steel tube/fram, just replaced the whole fuel system new gas tank, lines rebuilt cars and fuel pump. On my way home my bumper fell off LOL so had to fix that one at work today, just got all the lights wired up corretly. whole center consol got rippred out from previous owner,and most the body panels are missing 80% of the bolts to hold them on, and i could go on and on but hey when i'm done it will be a pimp a** ride with a 6 inch lift and some 29" mudders so just remember for as bad as it is, it can allways be worse, thats what i allways say just hang in there and you'll get it all rolling

yep had the same problem with my brat but instead of replacing the line i used an A/C flush kit and replaced the flushing fluid for ac systems with carb cleaner.. Works much better then just compressed air because it takes all the particles out of the line unlike compressed air which will just knock them all loose to create future problems

what i have done in the past is drill the center of the bolt out and pound in a torx bit to act as an easy out and try and romove the bolt that way

sounds to me like you didn't plug in the electrical connectiond to the carb???

man just drive to a shop locally and have a mechanic zip it off for you with an impact gun, if you don't want to pay money come to bothell at my shop and i'll get it off for ya

hmm how good are you with a torch??? If you can get a small enough flame on a torch to just get the bit red then tap the oxegen the bit will explode but would be real hard to do on aluminum(in fear of melting the aluminum away). Done it on cast iron before, other then that i would have to try and work the old bit out with a center punch or something like that. Everytime i tried to drill a bit out i broke one of my cobolt bits off in the hole so be carefull and goow luck

well just got all of the fuel lines pump and tank replaced which made this thing run like a CHAMP:) drove it for about 200 miles and seemed to do well, as far as the wheels and rims i will get you all a picture of them soon and will be selling them to whoever wants them once i get the lift and new rims and tires for them

my 85 brat did the same thing i was getting fuel pressure but not enough to keep the float bowl full of fuel found out i was only getting .5 lbs of pressure and should of been around 1-3 lbs, so do like 85Sub4WD said but make sure you get a bit of a stream and not just a little bit comming out

Ok here's what i've done in the past much like a helicoil they make an insert that you can put in there talk to you local parts store or even a machine shop to find out if they have these in your bolt pitch, The procedure usaually is to drill the whole 3 or 4 drill sizes bigger then what you need then use the tap they give you with the kit, thread it in and insert the oversized helicoil, done it on older bugs, soobs, and all kinds of american rigs. Other option is to oversize yout hole and use a bigger bolt for this you will probably have to drill the hole in your intake a little bit bigger and use a stud and a nut to reinstall Good luck

hey clutch i'm in bothell if your close to me i'd be more then happy to help you out

i think doing the heads would be good experience for you so when you do it on a rig you care about you do it well