Uh-oh...flooding

Well I've had another project going so the Plymouth got pushed aside temporarily, but now I'm back to it.

By chance I've discovered what the problem is. I had the car loaded up to go to the car show Saturday morning. Started it up, runs for 5 seconds then begins to sputter and lope. Pop the hood and sure enough there's gas dripping...again.

I got the hammer and tapped the side of the carb by the fuel inlet and everything straightens up. I didn't drive the car, all I needed was to have gas going everywhere on a hot engine.

So obviously what's happening is the needle valve or the float itself is hanging open when the carb starts cooling back down and contracting.

My brother had a Holley 2245 that did this as well because of the float pin binding, so I'm going to look at all of this very carefully.