Eldebrock 600 issues

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charliemccraney

Posted 17 Years Ago

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That is a possibility. I'll take a look at it when I get home. I'm curious now.

Lawrenceville, GA

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bird55

Posted 17 Years Ago

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could be be your coil has a built in resistor. obviously, you shouldn't ask me. I need to leave certain things to the experts, problem is that's getting to be more and more things!

A L A N F R A K E S ~ Tulsa, OK

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That's kinda weird. I've been running my points without a the resistor wire for several years now with no problems. I think my coil is 12v, though. It's whatever the local parts store sold me - nothing fancy. Now, the ignitor II coil and points, that's a bad idea - but it'll run great for about 10 miles.

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bird55

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FIXED IT.

ok if you go back thru this thread you'll see the wild goose chase of a gremlin I was after.

What I forgot about…was that after I burned up the pertronix and put in a new set of replacement points is…

I didn't GO BACK to running a Ballast resistor or a coil with a ballast resistor built-in… Blush

oops

I haven't had one on my car for about ten years or so or whenever I started running the petronix. So it was burning up the points in a minute. duh

The carb was dirty though and there was dirty fuel too.

When it rains, it pours.

The good news, problem solved and the car is on the way to the tranny shop as I type.

Thanks for all your suggestions.

A L A N F R A K E S ~ Tulsa, OK

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pegleg

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Alan, check the coil or the spark.

Frank/Rebop

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bird55

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went thru the carb again. hooked up a gravity feed fuel line. Checked and reset the floats.

Runs a couple minutes then starts breaking up and eventually dies.

I put it on a trailer and sent it to the shop. Sick

A L A N F R A K E S ~ Tulsa, OK

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I finally ended up with the bigger pump and a big AC canister filter on there - rubber jumper hose to the original fuel line. Had to "clock" the pump outlet port around to the front a bit.

I drilled out (as much as I dared) and radiused every flow stopping edge of the brass fittings. The inlet hose was sized up to fit over the end of the original double flared 5/16 fuel line. This arrangement puts out some serious flow at the carb inlet fitting (at least way more than the original T-bird part).

Good luck finding your gremlin - Its getting close on making the run to Columbus!!!!

Steve Metzger Tucson, Arizona

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GREENBIRD56

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I was thinking that it might be posssible for the old style fuel pump to have an internal leak - that allowed additional fuel to be pulled up the vacuum line. It would make the intake system go over rich - like flooding at idle.

There is an Airtex 362 on ebay this evening: Item number: 250280280366

Steve Metzger Tucson, Arizona

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AZ28 (8/10/2008)

When I recently struggled with pump capacity - finally dumped the T-bird stocker for the Airtex 362 (428 FE) pump - I rigged up a jug on the floor to absolutely eliminate the fuel tank and plumbing as a problem source for the starvation situation.

The old "double action" vacuumpump on mine wasa loser. You aren't sucking an internal fuel leak up into the vacuum port?

You installed your new tank and the outlet tube flows easily?

Yourelectric booster pump isn't a suction problem is it? Does it have an internal screen?

And you've got the old style glass bowl filter out of the line by now, right?

And extended idle causes the carb to flood? or starve? You don't have a "Titanic" (sinking) float?

I know all of the goofy questions can be annoying - got a friend with a carb you know works?

I just reread your post.

Are you saying that my stock pump might be drawing fuel back from the carb because of an internal leak? Pump is a few years old and come to think of it it wasn't used in the dyno test

I should also eliminates all the fuel line with a gravity feed system tomorrow. thanks for the help.

A L A N F R A K E S ~ Tulsa, OK

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Steve, thanks for the response.

I think I have adequate fuel out of the fuel line after the filter(still may not be clean enough?)

So the carb may be dirty again.

the sinking float is one I hadn't thought of.

Gonna try another replacement carb in the am

The good news is when it WAS running I backed it in and out of the garage a few times with the new trans!

A L A N F R A K E S ~ Tulsa, OK

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