Recent content by egates

I drained some oil out so it reads normal now. Still no luck. It runs fine if I'm revving it to 1500 or higher but if drops to below that it stalls. Do I really want to get into replacing the float on the carb? My success with carb rebuilds is less than great at this point; I rebuilt the carbs...

Now that you mention it, I noticed the oil level was a little over full on the dipstick.

No, as I was trying to start it, I saw gas splash out of the top of the carb but no smoke or fire.

My 78 started having a rough idle that got progressively worse. First, just rough idle one day that had me worried. So I checked it out a day or 2 later before I was supposed to drive it in a parade. It had a bit of a stumble to the idle but it was cold and was OK running fast choked. Then after...

I kept reading from various sources 'on the stamp pad on the right side of the engine just ahead of the cylinder head' and I looked and looked and looked and did not see anything - found a head stamping that had something like PPO and 75 but that was on the head. Finally, I took some cleaner...