Thanks to everbody for your sage advice. a couple of things: The car initially died shortly after I accelerated briskly up to 70 or so. It died at the top of a small hill. Since I have only logged about 200 miles on the car, I did not know if the gas gauge was incorrect, and tried the pour-fuel-in-carb trick to see if it was a fuel supply problem. This did not work. It seemed ignition related, and I was without tools. I have always put in the premium fuel in the car and had added a can of Lead Substitute recently. I also pulled the fuel line off of the carb and cranked the engine and it filled my glass jar very quickly. My neighbor with a Studebaker thinks it is that new-fangled e lectronic eggnition. I will try anyting, Thanks again --- George Roller <gsroller54@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oh, wise ones: > My Imperial frustrates me so! I bought this car in > March. The previous owner bragged about putting a > new > Edlebrock carb on this car, at great personal > expense, > but he belived that it "needed tweeking". I drove > the > car 90 miles home without much problem. I took it > to > a carb expert garage that had it running just great. > > That is until it died suddenly, and would not start. > Some carb diddling ensued. Different metering rods, > > some wimpier spings, a bending of the floats and all > seemed right with the world. Ran great, Until I > started it the next day. Now it is running real > rich, > backfiring, and dies occasionally. Cant really > drive > it like this. The garage thought that maybe the > carb > is too big for the '72. (it is a 75ocfm I think) > Is this possible. Oh, I also noticed that two of > the > vacuume hoses that run to the canister located in > the > right front are just cut off. This looks like an > old > modification. Any thoughts? Oh, I found the old > Holly > rusting away in the leaking trunk. Thanks George > Roller. > > '72 Lebaron 4 Dr > White with Black Top & Black Leather Int. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com > ----------------- > This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing > List. Please > reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your > response will be > shared with everyone. Private messages (and > attachments) for the > Administrators should be sent to > webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to > http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm