Went through high water tonight on way home from work.

 

I bailed out of the street into a drive, was idling like a carp out of water, tried to feed it more fuel didn't seem to make it worse but not any better either. After a couple of minutes it died then couldn't get it started again. Thought it was just vapor locked cause it was backfiring through the Weber 32/36 and then through the exhaust sometimes not every time. So I let it sit for 15 minutes before trying again & same thing.

I though maybe I'd be better letting it sit for longer like 45 minutes, still no luck coming back through the carb.

I looked for vac hoses that may have come off and saw nothing out of place.

 

Do I need to take the carb apart or let it sit over night and see what it does in the morning?

 

Other thoughts??

 

Thanks for any input in advance.

wet distributor ?

Check your wires and distributor. Dry them all thoroughly and try to fire it over again.

 

Twitch

Remove all four spark plugs and crank it a bit. Then replace them (may as well check gap while they are out) and try again.

I'd second you having gotten a wet dizzy. If it ran for several minutes after, no matter how crappily, it pushed any water it inhaled into the cylinders out.

I actually got a new cap and points a while back, I'm thinking I should just replace them now.

Well got the wrong cap and points for her. . . .

 

On a better note you were right, the dizzy got too wet.

 

Fired right up tonight, almost took this morning.

I'm not sure how well this works, having never experienced it before on one of my own cars, but when I was young my father always carried a spray can

of WD-40 in his cars. I remember him having to spray it into a dizzy that got wet, and this worked to clear out the moisture from the points and get the car

going again.

Water-Displacement formula 40 (WD-40)

 

that's exactly what it is designed to do.

Went to go to work in it today and it played dead as a door nail, absolutely nothing when I turned the key. I had just it running last night a couple of times turning off and on. Didn't have time to play with it, so i just took the Tahoe instead.

 

Turned the key when I got home, same thing. Turned the key one more time and I heard a click, real faint & the light bulb came on starter isn't getting a good contact some how, not the cable coming from the battery, I wiggled the little wire with the clip connecter on it. .bingo took right off. Must have been some water create just enough bad contact, ALL GOOD NOW :)

Edited June 27, 201411 yr by Dinky26