Fuel in the oil....

That got me thinking & I MAY have solved my problem. I'll share my idiocy here hoping that it may help someone else. That car being an '85 had the (pos) feedbcak carb on it. I never could get it to run right, possibly due to the fact that it sat for quite some time. So I ordered the reman for a '79 colt to get away from the emission control crap (besides, the reman feedback carb was over $600.00). Here's where I made my mistake.

The fuel pump on this car has two outlets and there is also the return line to the tank. On the original carb, one of the fuel pump lines goes into the needle & seat portion of the carb, one goes to a fitting on the side of the accelerator pump and the return line also plumbs into a fitting on the accelerator pump. Crazy. The reman carb I bought had only one fitting on the accelerator pump in addition to the feed to the needle & seat.

My mistake here is that I put the lines in the wrong places. One of the lines coming from the fuel pump has good pressure coming out & the other one seems to just dribble. I didn't realize this 'till today. I put the dribble line onto the needle & seat fitting, the one with more pressure on the fitting to the accelerator pump & plugged the return to the tank.

I'm pretty sure this was causing an overload on the the needle & seat or else a backward flow through (possibly overfilling the bowl) the carb as when the car would sit, It would flood badly. So now, I put the "high pressure" feed from the pump to the needle & seat. This causes fuel to come out the accelerator pump fitting while the car is running so I'm guessing that is where the return line should be connected. This is the way I have it now (I plugged the "dribble line") & it seems to be running correctly.

Any idea why the two feeds from the fuel pump? I'm betting had I bought a '79 pump it would have come with only one.


Crazy......