I am hopeing someone has had this happen before. It all started Friday when me and my son installed a fan shroud on my mav with the I6 (200). I found a nest that a mouse or something had started the nest was under the air cleaner next to the carb. I then saw that the fuel filter was leaking. I saw that it was lose so I tightened it up until it broke off of the carb. I then took the carb off and used an ez-out to take the remains of the fuel filter out. With the heat I covered up the intake with a rag and called it a night. Saturday morning I reinstalled the carb and started it with no leaks. It was so Hot Out side I just parked the car in the garage and called it a day. Well it set until this morning and I drove it to work about 30 miles. I was almost to work when it died and would not start. When I popped the hood I saw gas leaking out from the bottom of the carb. So long story short the car was towed home and now I need to fix the leak in the carb. The carb is a Carter single barrel with electric choke. Does anyone know anything about these.
The gas was coming out of a vacum port that has egr next to it. It also looked like gas was coming out of the area where the spring is for the throttle.
Also it will run for a little while 2-3 min. then I can see gas coming from the base or bottom area of the carb and it dies. That is when I saw gas dripping from a EGR vacuum port ( it has EGR next to it on the carb) and some where by the spring on the throttle.
Did you make sure all the shavings were out of the carb? Seems to me like some junk got into the "needle and seat" area of the carb. This is what regulates how much fuel gets into the bowl and activates the float. If something gets stuck in there the float cant shut the fuel off. I have seen fuel leak out of throttle shafts, and other places, as a result. Jamie
Bingo! I can almost guarantee this is your problem. Also, your carb is more then likely a Carter RBS. With the way the needle fits in and works, there is a chance it may have fell out when you took the fuel filter off. I drove my '74 Grabber around for 2 days once with no needle. It wasn't running quite right and I couldn't figgure out why. Then it left me stranded, gas running everywhere. Drug the car home, took the carb apart, no needle to be found!
I was working on it and thought I may have found the problem but reading about the needle makes me wonder. I took the throttle assembly off the bottom of the carb since that is where I think it was leaking. I wanted to check and see if the gasket was damaged I found a piece of string about a 1/4 of an inch long in a small hole in the throttle assembly I put it back together and noticed that the way the vacuum hoses were attatched looked wrong the spot on the carb labled DST was not hooked up to the distributer. I corrected that and it seemed to run fine. I will drive it around the block a few times tomorrow. What should I notice when it is running if the needle is missing?
Mine wouldn't idle worth a damn and would fall on it's face when you would barely hit the gas hard. It was also blowing black smoke from running rediculously rich and was very hard to start. I was stumped with mine for a couple of days. I still managed to drive it to school and to get supper for 2 days like that though! I was dumbfounded when I pulled it apart and the needle was gone. No way in heck I would have believed a car would run like that, much less drive around!
