About 1.5 yrs ago dad had the ford die on him. He couldn't get any spark so he pulled the distributor off and brought it to the shop. Its been sitting ever since. He found a bad coil and decided to buy a new coil, points, and condenser. About a month ago my brother put the new points and condenser in and today we decided to see if we could get it running. Put the distributor back in, checked for and got spark, cranked it but no go. Tried a shot of starting fluid and it ran and died. Pulled the carb drain plug and didn't get much fuel. Tapped on the carb and got better flow. Tried it again and it ran but not very good. Pulled the carb and found rust and crud and the float was sticking on the pin. I tore the carb down, ran it thru the sonic cleaner and bead blasted the bowl. The sediment bowl was full of sludge so that got cleaned up and drained all of the old gas out of the tank. I need to make a run tomorrow to pick up a carb kit and sediment bowl gasket and screen. Hopefully this will be back running tomorrow.
