Well, I snuck over to the storage yard where the '68 Malibu I just
bought has been for the past several years...
We'd tried for the past couple of days to get it started, but 6volts in
the battery wasn't going to cut it.
Brought it home, charged it up, went over yesterday, still no go...
My buddy met me over there today and he figured it out... Neutral Safety
switch was bad...
we jumped it, and it turned over...primed the carb and it fired right
up, but as soon as the
fuel got up around the carb, we noticed a fuel leak where the rubber
line attached to the dual feed line...
rubber was like plastic. Ran across the street to Autozone to pick up
some line and a new fuel filter, my buddy called
and said to get a fuel pump too... it was rotating where it's supposed
to be pinched together...
got back, threw the pump, filter and lines on. We noticed the fuel was
bad... smelled funky, be we didn't see any
harm in trying it... reprimed a couple of times, fired up and ran...
quite a bit of smoke. Motor
hadn't been run in probably 4 years. kept it at as low an idle as I
could for a few minutes, then rev'd her up to
clear the crap out... she seems to run a bit rough, but we're
attributing that to the bad gas and more than likely
needing a new set of plugs. I'm going to get a right front tire
tomorrow, and hopefully get her home where the major
cleanup will start. It's got Flowmasters on it...not sure what models, I
think 40 Series... it sounds awesome at idle, but pretty
darn loud when your revving.
Release the hounds!!!!
Ron
