Silly me, and a warning to all. Car had had the same gas in the tank for 2 yrs, last year i added a 10 litres for when I ran it for 30 mins to get the juices flowing, but I never insured the car last year so that was it. When I tried to start it last week, it started fine with a prime, but then the troubles started. ROugh running and then no start, checked everything, cleaned plugs ran rough then died. I was super out of practice trouble shooting as I haven't had a "no start" in at least five years with any of my vehicles, so I did a trouble shoot on the whole ignition system. By the way, with an induction pickup timing light, and a flooded plug, you will get the impression that you have no spark. So now I have a new cap and rotor, new plugs, adjusted my floats, cleaned a little gunk out of the bowls. The only problem is a 10 litre gas can on the roof, with a tube to the carbs.
SO, with a 1/6 tank of bad gas, into which I have already dumped 10 litres last week, who thinks another 10 litres will make the gas usable? I don't really want to have to dump it all, as this is a messy, stinky process.
I'm starting to feel that wisdom is making the same mistakes and being able to quickly say, "well I know what I did wrong this time"
When it finally turned over it was so sweet sounding after all the fussing and fuming. Ciao, patrick.
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Patrick, '68 220, '83 245, '92 Eurovan (work truck).