| Dustbowl | -- 01-16-2019 @ 3:35 PM |
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If my 1936 Ford sits for over a week, it takes about 60 seconds of cranking the engine before it starts. (Normally, it starts quickly and runs well). I guess that the gasoline in the carburetor tank has disappeared and it takes the cranking to fill it back up. I posted this same topic last year and Ken ct suggested that I replace the power valve, as it might be leaking. I did that but still have the same problem. I need new suggestions, such as: -what else could make the carb go dry? -Or is my guess that the carb is empty wrong, and something else causes the long crank time after the car sits a week or more. I welcome any ideas, no matter how likely. thanks
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| carcrazy | -- 01-16-2019 @ 4:33 PM |
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The gasoline in the carburetor float bowl will evaporate while the car is parked for a long period of time. You can install an auxiliary electric fuel pump back at the fuel tank and run it before attempting to start the engine. Once the pump has been operating long enough to fill the carburetor, turn it off, press the accelerator pedal to the floor one time to prime the engine, pull the choke out all the way and crank the engine to start it. Once the engine starts push in the choke knob and drive the vehicle away.
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| ken ct. | -- 01-16-2019 @ 5:54 PM |
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If your bowl is empty after a week its leaking. What carb do you have there Strom. or 94 ford-holley ??. There is a gasket on both types. How did you assume its not leaking. I can check a strom one with a special tool I have but not possible on the ford one. Their completely diff. PV. I will check the strom one for return postage free of any charges if you want. Postage is $ 3.50 in small padded envelope. Unless you have a crack or pin hole in bowl some where. Or one or more of the brass plugs are leaking. ken ct 1-203-260-9780 cell
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| 40 Coupe | -- 01-17-2019 @ 3:43 AM |
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What fuel pump do you have? Have you checked pump pressure or output? Have you looked at the flex fuel line at the fuel pump? Do you have a fuel filter?
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| JT Ford | -- 01-18-2019 @ 10:00 AM |
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I have two shoebox fords and both have that problem after a week setting. You can grind the starter for a while or remove the air cleaner and pour some gasoline into the carb. Doesn't take much to start at once!
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| TomO | -- 01-18-2019 @ 10:14 AM |
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JTFord Send your carburetors to Charlie Schwendler to have them fixed. The gasket on the sediment bowl of your fuel pumps may be leaking air, leading to long priming time. Try a new gasket made of rubberized cork. Pouring gasoline down the carburetor is not a good idea, some of it will end up in the oil along with the fuel that leaked out of your carburetor. Dustbowl, answer Ken's question on which carburetor you have. Tom
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| keith oh | -- 01-18-2019 @ 10:26 AM |
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This problem is not all that bad. In fact some of the older car instructions state to turn the ignition off and crank the engine for 20 to 30 seconds to pump oil to bearings pre starting a cold inactively used engine . Also it warms the battery plates and they recharge more fully.
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