mlbinseattle

I recently replaced an oil pan gasket and took care of a few other minor issues. I had the car on jack stands for several days with the engine practically pulled to change the oil pan gasket. It's now all buttoned up and back together.

Before the work, it ran great. Last night, after finishing the work, I attempted to start it. It promptly flooded out. It's so bad, the gas was seeping out from around the restrictor plate under the carb.

Some additional info: After I re-installed the distributor, I initially miswired the coil battery and tach connections. It acted like it wasn't getting any spark, and it flooded out. I checked the connections and realized that I didn't have the wires plugged in properly at the coil connections on the distributor cap. I corrected that and tried again. It then tried to start ... actually got it to fire, but that lasted about 2 seconds. When that happened, there was a "pfft" sound, and white smoke came out from around the firewall. Now I'm wondering if I didn't fry something.

I checked the plug wires to the distributor cap and those appear to be in the correct order (1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2).

One thing I did in addition to change the pan gasket was I connected the heat riser to the the vacuum line. Previously, the hose was whacked off at the heat riser, and the vacuum line up on the intake was just laying there. The engine had been running with an unnoticeable vacuum leak.

Today, I will pull #1 plug and check it to see if it's fouled. I envisioned all the plugs saturated in gas. I will also recheck the plug wires and to see if I'm getting spark to the plugs.

Any suggestions?

mlbinseattle

Oh well, I suppose I got freaked out over nothing at all. This morning after allowing the gas to evaporate all night long and leaving it on the battery charger, I checked the wiring again. It was correct. I also checked the restrictor plate. No problems, there. I pumped the pedal a couple of times, and it fired right up. All is good in my world, again.

RedLeader289

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Stuff happens. for all you know you may have accidentally hit the linkage knowing it and flooded it out while you were working on it. Glad it's up and running again.

mlbinseattle

At first, when the engine was up in the air, I didn't think I'd have to disconnect the linkage. However, it soon became obvious that I'd need to. I may have flooded it when disconnecting the linkage, and when it was miswired (after reinstalling the distributor), I probably made it worse by pumping the pedal several times. Yep, back on track with the restoration, now.