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I had a 61 Newport wagon many years ago that would only run
with your foot on the gas & that turned out to be the fuel pump. I've
changed a lot of fuel pumps, but don't know how to rebuild a carb, so hoping the
fuel pump cures the problem.
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 6:12
PM
Subject: Re: IML: 60 Imperial
Stalling
It sounds like the fuel pump to me. All of my old cars had to
have a new fuel pump recently. In addition to the pumps just being old and
ready to fail, I have also heard that today's gas is particularly hard on the
old diaphragm. The fact that you car ran with a shot of starting fluid, and
then quit sounds like it isn't getting any gas.
Paul
In a
message dated 11/16/2003 6:22:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, jsadowski@xxxxxxx writes:
> Hi
folks, I have been letting my car sit for the past 6 months & now it
doesn't want to stay running when I let my foot off of the gas. The first
time, the carb was spilling gas all over the engine & then it wouldn't
restart. Now it seems as if it is starving for gas. I tried changing the fuel
filter & thought that was it until it went from high idle &
immediately stalled. It then refused to restart again & didn't flood,
although I tried to start for several minutes, I sprayed a little carb cleaner
into the carb & it again started but again stalled when I let off the gas.
I'm thinking it may be the fuel pump, which was "borrowed" from another
Imperial in 1990.
> Any advice?
> Thanks,
John
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