Ken G's Journal

The summer is always busy and I seem to be making slow progress bit with a series of minor set backs. After 3 or 4 tries I was finally able to get the brakes to bled. My back passenger brake wouldn't pass the fluid, but after I did the others and waited a couple of days it freed up and they seem to be working ok for now.
Then the the emergency cable was ultra tight and it took a bit of work to get that to function properly.

I reinstalled the charged up battery, added some gas and tried to get it to start, no luck. So I cleaned up the plugs and tried again and after a few fits and coughs she started up. I was very happy. I got in and gave her some gas and well she immediately died. Restarted and tried again, same thing. Started up again and slowly threw her in first gear and she creeped forward and then in reverse, but when I went to add gas dead again.

So I played around in the drive way starting it and letting it warm up and trying to up the reves and every time I touched the accelerator it would just shut off.

So I'm at a loss, as I did nothing to the engine while I was working on the other stuff and I do not remember it doing this before I started working on the suspension. I'm not sure if it is flooding or it isn't advanced enough. I have the DOCE that was on the car when I go it and a 25D distributor. There is no vacuum advance to the distributor from the carb, and I suspect that maybe part of the issue but I wouldn't have guessed that it would have this big of an impact. Maybe the carb is flooding the engine? Guess I need to start and the beginning and verify everything is in the right place. A bit of a bummer ad I was hoping to drive it around the block this week.
Oh yes and of course the new rubber boot I installed on the steering rack developed a leak and poured gear oil all over the garage floor. yuck.

Any suggestions would be great. Thanks