engine dies

[my8thholden]

Hi gents and ladies ..My grey engine , stock standard , I am aware of this problem heard it before , but I just cant recall what the cause is , so I dont go looking at this and that I thought someone on the forum will say do this do that and the penny will drop for me ...the car has been running fine , all be it not often ..recently though , start up all good , move off , stop to turn onto road , or stop at intersection and go to move off , engine just dies , push accelerator sort of nothing then fires up and goes , on one occasion had to restart with the ignition and hold revs up a bit and get going , once going all good , get home turn into driveway , fault , fail, fart and then fire up and go ...any answers on this please ....Vern .

[Harv]

Accelerator pump not squirting well. Pull air cleaner, operate throttle linkage by hand and watch for a blurt of fuel down the carb throat.

Cheers,
Harv

[Errol62]

Check the fuel level in the fuel pump glass bowl also Vern. I had similar symptoms recently and it was an air leak in the fuel pipe before the pump.


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[Just40]

sounds like blockage on the fuel pick up in the tank.

[Errol62]

The consensus seems to be fuel related Vern, so it’s probably spark 😄😄


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[my8thholden]

Errol ...Your right , just remind me where are the sparkplugs located exactly in the fuel tank ...seriously now, I built a demo grey motor for the museum at Fagan Park and it runs very well and responds to throttle, so I will take carby of that and put on the car and try ....Vern ..