PolCat-76-Avion wrote:
My question to the group is does the 76 Mopar 440 carburetor have a primer pump? If you pump the foot pedal does it pump gas into the carburetor throat? It has sat for a week and now will not start. It has an electric fuel pump on it so I let the pump run for awhile before trying to start it. Last weekend we went camping and when we went to leave it was a hard start.
Update: went out and let the fuel pump run for 2 more minutes and it started right up :)
If you are having to run the fuel pump that long to get it to start, the most likely culprit is going to be the fuel bowl well caps that sit underneath the phenolic resin bowl on the Thermo-Quad. I’m going through that right now and just bought some Loctite E AE–120HP resin to re-epoxy them. It’s almost identical to what Carter used when they were assembling them.
