[DeTomaso] Not running ...

[Mike Thomas]

Did you change your carb bowls last year when you had the thing rebuilt?  I
had very similar symptoms when, after tearing the carb apart, found that I
had been given one of the famous flaking float bowls.  There was a bad run
of plating a while back the resulted in the coating on the inside of the
bowls blistering and flaking off, clogging your fuel delivery.  Pull the
carb, pull the bowls, and take a look.

May be it, may not.  It was about a year after my rebuild that the bowl went
south.

Mike Thomas
Yellow 74 L 6328 

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Erik Anderson
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 12:04 PM
To: MikeLDrew at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Not running ...

I've had the gear pin go before. The car wouldn't start in that case. 

Now, I can get her to start, but she only chokes to life and will only run
if I keep on the throttle. 

I can see that fuel is getting into the carb. Do you still think it's the
gear pin?


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From: MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: Erik Anderson; detomaso at realbig.com <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Sun Jul 25 13:00:53 2010
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Not running ... 



In a message dated 7/25/10 11 58 8, eanderson at geotracinternational.com
writes:




	I am thinking it's one of these pieces who is the culprit ... most
likely the carb.
	
	Thoughts?
	



Manually fill the float bowls with gas, then start the car.  Does it run
cleanly, until the carb runs out of fuel?  Then it's a fuel delivery
problem.  Does it not start?  Then it's likely something else?

Your symptoms sound strikingly like a sheared distributor gear pin.

Mike
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