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Very nice offer. That will get it out.

Don

you can presurize the fuel tank with an air line or even the discharge hose on a vacume cleaner and blow the fuel out

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

you can presurize the fuel tank with an air line or even the discharge hose on a vacume cleaner and blow the fuel out

: i had forgot about that ,, that`s sorta how i stole most of my gas as a youngster .. put the hose in the tank .. stuff a rag around it and blow with all your mite .. the pressure build up would push the gas up the hose and out

never heard of that. i will do that today thanks

Yep, just don't put more than a couple of pounds of air pressure in there or you will end up with a 50 gallon fuel tank.

So, I wasn't the only one who spent my misguided youth siphoning gas out of other peoples cars, huh? Not real cool when you don't get your mouth off of the hose quick enough and you get a gulp of hi test!

And gas was only 20 cents a gallon and we still stole it!

Don

Kind of like a scene from a Walter Matthau movie when I was a kid. He kept putting gas in the neighbors car. The neighbor would brag about how excellent his car was and what great gas mileage it got, then they started siphoning it out, and the guy starts to cuss his car out, can't understand what's wrong with it, meanwhile Walter just sits back and grins. Wish I could remember the movie it was, maybe one of the bad news bears?

used the shop vac to pressurize. what a breeze that was. thank you so much for the tip. now i get to hook up all my fuel lines and hope to fire this afternoon. woo hoo

yur welcome barb

ok guys. got all the fuel out and ran the fuel line and thought i had the wiring done. the new fuel is flowing well into the carb. engine turns over well but is not firing. ran a wire from the + on the coil to the ballast resistor. from the - on the coil to the distributor. put the wire from the hei to the ballast resistor. also have the wire from the electric choke to the ballast resistor as that is what i was told to do from edelbrock. i have all new spark plugs with proper gap and spark plug wires. did them one at a time to make sure that i kept the original firing order for the engine. what am i missing.

If your runing an HEI I don't think you want a ballast resistor.. HEI's run full 12 volts unless you have somthing special?

it was hei but now it is points. the wire that i ran used to plug into the hei from the ignition. now i have it run to the ballast resistor and the coil wire to the ballast resistor.

open the points manually .. if voltage is there there should be a spark

Originally Posted by HOSS429

open the points manually .. if voltage is there there should be a spark

If the points happen to be open you'll have to bump the engine until they are closed. Wear a glove or use an insulated tool or your heart could get a decent jump start.

sorry for being so dense but how do i do that?

You can do it by hand on the crank bolt or bump the starter, just remember that the coil is pushing at least 20,000 volts and if you get across it it'll sure let you know.