I went until 2:30 am, when I finally closed the garage. The SS is ready to run today, and should not leak.
I tightened the new fuel filter, fuel hoses, and vacuum caps, all of which were seeping. Also I overhauled the carb.
There was a lot of sediment. The float level was shockingly high. Every hole that pointed towards the sky was plugged with dirt.
It’s now clean, and I cleaned the air filter again and put it back together as carefully as possible. It still sucks. But then that’s its job. It sucks at sucking. I got the vapor hose tightened up to where it won’t be sucking air to the crankcase anymore.
This carburetor has less than 400 miles on it, but I could see that it’s sat around without running until the fuel had dried up in the bowl, on several occasions.
I made & installed the two tiny last bits of wire as I had not yet soldered up The electric choke wire and the idle cut off from scratch.
I took the distributor out in order to remove the carburetor and I cleaned it up and put it back and re-timed it & checked the dwell.
But I did it with a static continuity meter check instead of using the timing light. I couldn’t bring myself to start the car at two in the morning.
It looks beautiful and sunny today here in Central California and I am definitely going to get it out of the garage.
I hope the weather is nice where you live. Here it’s probably going to hit 65 today.