Sorry it's so long. Greetings,
When I bought this Mustang the guy was waiting on a new float, the old one was full of gas, wouldn't float. I was there
when his neighbor brought the new float over, put it in and it started right up. I drove it around awhile and thought what
the hey bought it and drove it home, about 8 miles.
It ran well plenty of power. Smoked a little and would spit carbon on startup so I checked the air/fuel mix screw which I
am told should be approx 1 1/2 turns out. This thing was 6 turns out. About to fall out. So It seemed to smooth out at
about 2 1/4 turns out. Didn't smoke or spit on a short test drive.
Then I popped the dist cap and the whole thing moved. It has the stock steel vacuum lines so I just tighted it down where
it wanted to be. Checked the gap which was around .024. Closed it up and never got it to start again over a period of 3
days check fuel, check spark, check timing with a light with vacuum off and cranking. Loosened the dist and would turn it a little to
get lucky but it wasn't even trying to hit.
So on a Monday morning I had it towed to a reputable shop here.. They rebuilt the carb and replaced the
distributor. The mechanic said he put 10 miles on it and all seemed good.
I put 30 or 40 miles on it over a two day period. Then on day three I got half a mile from the house, running fine, and it
started bucking and backfired and died. It did not start the first few times I tried to restart. So I sat there enjoying
the compliments from the people driving by about how nice the car looked for a few minutes, tried to start again and it
did, got it back home. Put it in the garage. Temp outside and inside 68 deg. The carb and dist are the correct matches for
this motor and trans. Autolite 1100 with the little wheel and load-o-matic dist with the 2 springs on the plate.
The old guy I bought this from said it never did this to him. I pretty much believe him and think this problem may have
been set off by something his next door neighbor did or did't do in fooling with the carb. I think the shop I took it to
had a really hard time with it making sense (took 3 days) so they started changing parts until it started. I think they
got lucky and it ran for a few days. The mech that worked on it said he had a full head of hair when he started on it,
he's smooth bald now.
Yesterday I set the points to .024 from .016 which it either slipped or that is where the mechanic set them and it started
right up. I was in heaven. Let it run to warm up, seems to have a little miss in it. Shut it off let it set a bit and it
hasn't started since.
I really don't want to take it back to that shop and run up another bill. Hopefully someone in this forum will have the
experience with this intermittent crank no start.
Thanks for reading, Bobby
When I bought this Mustang the guy was waiting on a new float, the old one was full of gas, wouldn't float. I was there
when his neighbor brought the new float over, put it in and it started right up. I drove it around awhile and thought what
the hey bought it and drove it home, about 8 miles.
It ran well plenty of power. Smoked a little and would spit carbon on startup so I checked the air/fuel mix screw which I
am told should be approx 1 1/2 turns out. This thing was 6 turns out. About to fall out. So It seemed to smooth out at
about 2 1/4 turns out. Didn't smoke or spit on a short test drive.
Then I popped the dist cap and the whole thing moved. It has the stock steel vacuum lines so I just tighted it down where
it wanted to be. Checked the gap which was around .024. Closed it up and never got it to start again over a period of 3
days check fuel, check spark, check timing with a light with vacuum off and cranking. Loosened the dist and would turn it a little to
get lucky but it wasn't even trying to hit.
So on a Monday morning I had it towed to a reputable shop here.. They rebuilt the carb and replaced the
distributor. The mechanic said he put 10 miles on it and all seemed good.
I put 30 or 40 miles on it over a two day period. Then on day three I got half a mile from the house, running fine, and it
started bucking and backfired and died. It did not start the first few times I tried to restart. So I sat there enjoying
the compliments from the people driving by about how nice the car looked for a few minutes, tried to start again and it
did, got it back home. Put it in the garage. Temp outside and inside 68 deg. The carb and dist are the correct matches for
this motor and trans. Autolite 1100 with the little wheel and load-o-matic dist with the 2 springs on the plate.
The old guy I bought this from said it never did this to him. I pretty much believe him and think this problem may have
been set off by something his next door neighbor did or did't do in fooling with the carb. I think the shop I took it to
had a really hard time with it making sense (took 3 days) so they started changing parts until it started. I think they
got lucky and it ran for a few days. The mech that worked on it said he had a full head of hair when he started on it,
he's smooth bald now.
Yesterday I set the points to .024 from .016 which it either slipped or that is where the mechanic set them and it started
right up. I was in heaven. Let it run to warm up, seems to have a little miss in it. Shut it off let it set a bit and it
hasn't started since.
I really don't want to take it back to that shop and run up another bill. Hopefully someone in this forum will have the
experience with this intermittent crank no start.
Thanks for reading, Bobby