Help! I need a good mechanic!
If it's the fuel/tank, wouldn't it seems it in the filter? It looks clear.
Sometimes. Sometimes not. Here is how you can tell. Remove the filter. Get a clean paper towel and put it on the ground. Take the filter and tap the inlet side on the paper towel and see if any debris comes out. If it does, you have stuff in the tank that shouldn't be there.
Look at it this way. These things are bout 40-50 years old. Imagine in all that time the crud that can build up in the tank. That is always, always, always the FIRST thing I do when I get an old car. Inspect the tank. It costs nothing to remove and look and is very easy to do. Even if you find it clean, you will at least know that the source is clean. But my money says you will not.
All of this is relatively cheap to do. A radiator shop can handle cleaning and coating the tank. I had the one on my Mercury Bobcat done for like 75 dollars and that included spraying it on the outside with bedliner and cleaning and coating the inside with Red Coat. It will now outlast me. Even if you have to replace it, replacement tanks are only around 120 bucks. Fuel pumps are like 25, and filters are under 10. Not like you will have to take out a second mortgage. But it all starts with inspection.
That carburetor is giving trouble twice now for a REASON.
