Two year old gas shouldn't have done all of that. I buy the part about it running poorly and then not at all, and the gas could have caused it to do both. Bent pushrods and no compression sound to me like this car had major problems before you started it.
Steady decline in engine operation has me in untenable spot. Bought 63 custom a month ago with two year old gas in the tank. Stupid me: tried to actually drive it up and down my street with rapidly deteriorating results. Car now just cranks with uneven sound of some non-uniform compression but will not combust. Removal of VC revealed one pushrod is GONE from #3; bent one from #4 had fallen from rocker arm so there we are at 75% already. Yes there is a spark; yes I have cleaned plugs after each attempt to start. Accelerator pump makes nice squirt every time. But even a blast of starting fluid down the throats fails to make ANY internal combustions.
--1) Could the valves have gotten so varnished up from the rotten fuel that no decent charge is getting into enough of the remaining chambers to reach break even point?
--2) Is there any failure mode of the carb itself that could explain this?
I need to get this thing into my carport (uphill) to get heads off. Would take an army of WWF stars to accomplish that with dead motor. If answer to number 1 is yes, I guess I am stuck. If number 2 is yes, then some time spent on carb might not be wasted. Thank you for guidance.
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