Burtons Beamer

Scratching my head here. I was able to get the car running the other day for about 10 minutes. The excitement was short lived. I cannot seam to get the car restarted. I was dumping fuel directly into carb just prior to getting it to run. Today I seem to have a fuel flow problem? I took out the sender in the trunk and noticed the wire that reports fuel level was all twisted up. I will search out the solution to this in a bit. The main reason I was in the tank was to see if fuel pickup screen was plugged and it looked ok. By the way when you remove the cap and lift the tube towards the top of the tank it seems to get stuck on a lip? In other words I cannot seam to get the tube all the way out? Is there some trick here? This issue aside, I moved back towards the carb/fuel pump. Despite the fact that a new fuel filter is installed and I was able to observe the rubber diaphragm indexing in and out as I turned the car over....no fuel? I have the Solex (40 pdsi) on the bench and am now awaiting a rebuild kit. Maybe I ought to just forgo the rebuild and do an upgraded carb now? Is there a tell tale sign to look for when a fuel pump is going? Adam

Too funny Ace Andrew. I was so appreciative with the advice you gave me earlier. I have a meeting with Hard Racing tomorrow at 10 AM. We are going to discuss the direction I want to go with the build. Definately wanting to rebuild the engine and do a fun streetable carb setup......

Sorry about all the spelling on my last post. I forgot to mention that the brakes are dragging. It had a brake job only 900 miles ago but unfortunately sat for twenty years after that. I did put fresh brake fluid in but still the drag?

Awesome feedback all. I am wondering why the car isn't getting fuel. The mouthful of gas and heet I got when I sucked at the filter proves this...YUK. I did dump some fuel directly in the carb and can get car to fire that way. I removed fuel pump and whatched diaphragm move as I turned car over. Yesterday I had the car running for at least 5 minutes on its own but now I can only keep it running by dumping gas directly to the carb? When dumping gas into bowl of carb I do notice some of fuel leaking from beneath it near the base of bowl. I just want to get car running well enough to get it to a car wash so I can bathe the engine/tranny area.

BTW congrats newbie on your new ride! I didn't intend to hijack you post...Adam

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Last week I purchased this car from a woman for 2000.00. I feel it was a fair price after all there was a lot of unknowns. She said it ran great when she parked it twenty yes twenty years ago. I was able to get the car running but pretty rough lap around the block. She had owned the car for more than 30 years and by the looks of the service receipts was pretty good about routine maintenance. I am super excited about rolling my sleaves up on this! Just a couple of pics of the car here to get some general feedback. A little bit of rust here and there and and some pretty trashed tires and brakes. I am super curious about two things. One is the leak of fuel near the bottom of the carb? Is the solex even worth messing with or just replace. My plan is to do a daily with some mild engine/carb/suspension mods. The second thing is the oil leak near the exhaust manifold. doesn't seem like valve gasket. Perhaps I have one of those leaky manifold bolt dealios? Anyone know of any good engine guys in Spokane or am I gonna have to go to Seattle for some help? I would like to pull the engine and tranny. I would like to find someone to do a refresh on the engine...new head...oil pump...fuel pump...exhaust and carb. any feed back would be cool...Adam