need help

pinkfuzzibunnies said

Thank you so much...since this post I had a friend look at my carb. and he saw that it has been JB welded and said he'd go down to the shop and demand my money back...I am disappointed...I've had so many mechanics screw me over :( I am going to learn how to just do all this myself...

can you tell me what kind of manual I should get or a good site to get it cause I got one at autozone before and almost nothing in it actually related to my specific car...

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Someone here can probably direct you to where to download the FACTORY service manual.

Re your hot start issue. It sounds like you have a heat soak issue. Especially in Las Vegas! That is when you shut off your hot engine and it sits for awhile. While you are shopping or whatever, heat is transferring from all that hot cast iron into the aluminum carburetor body making the fuel hot. Hot fuel causes problems and sometimes it will get hot enough to actually boil in the carb fuel bowl. Todays "gasoline" doesn't help either. You should be able to buy a carb insulator that will fit between the bottom of the carb and the intake manifold and come in various thicknesses, a typical one might be 1/2" thick. This will help to keep the carb cooler. Also, if you really want to solve it, you can plumb a return line through an orifice back to the gas tank to keep the fuel moving. Then it doesn't sit and boil. Maybe a change to a 160 degree thermostat might help too.

It would help a lot if you at least tell us whetehr it is a slant 6 (/6) or a V-8. (probably a 318)

Good luck and keep asking questions