Thread: Edelbrock 1405 Issues

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Using any ethanol in your gas?? Dried accelerator pump rubber is possible if your using E10. I am not a motor tech guru like others on here but if you don't hear the squish of a shot of gas when the linkage is pulled back before cranking I have found these to be the problem (especially with ethanol in the mix)

I bought the car back in 2002 and it has been sitting at my parents house until this year when I brought it over to mine. The carb hasn't been touched until I removed it this week. Who owned it before me 'tweaked' the entire car quite a bit and its missing lots of stock stuff. There isn't a choke lever to be found inside the cab and there isn't an electric choke installed on the carb. I did buy an electric choke recently and as soon as I get my carb back together I'm going to put it on. To get the car going, we essentially had to put some gas down the top of the carb and shut the butterfly plate by hand, then start the car to get it to go. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not. Most of the time it would turn over and shut back off. Once it gets going, it runs fairly well. If it sits overnight, the gas drains out of the bowls and nothing is in the glass filter. I installed a new fuel pump (mechanical) and filter just before moving it. There isn't a pressure regulator installed that I know of. Ever since I owned it, it has not started right (except for the day when I bought it).

I will be checking into an electric fuel pump as the article suggested though.