I have looked at old gas and old oil before and I would stop what you are doing
till you change the oil and drain the tank. Success is Good, congratulations!
Bob
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> From: Ron Zeppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2006/02/12 Sun PM 08:25:50 EST
> To: The Chevelle Mailing List <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Chevelle-list] It's ALIVE!!!
>
>
> 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
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