This is not your problem but thought you might enjoy someone else's weird happenings. A friend is restoring a 1954 Dodge truck they rebuilt the carb, new ignition complete, had fuel tank cleaned and sealed, new fuel lines, pump and filter. The engine wouldn't start so the removed number one spark plug and went to bump it over to find tdc, but the second they bumped the starter it started and ran about 20 seconds then died. So they reinstalled the plug and it wouldn't start, removed plug and started again. This continued on for a couple more days. Finally he called me and described the problem and ask for help. I ask several questions decided he was totally insane then agreed to go over and look at it. I got there told him to crank it over so he did and it never tried to fire. I signaled for him to stop and watched the air cleaner gasket blow off the carb. I busted out laughing and told him to go get his hack saw. After he decided I was insane he got the saw and I instructed him to saw off the muffler, now he knew I was nuts but he did it. I then told him to try it again the engine made almost a full revolution then started right up. In my entire life I had never saw a muffler completely plugged till then. We took it out side and banged it on the ground causing almost a half gallon of real fine rust/carbon to fall out. I guess we are never too old to learn. The truck had been parked since 1973. This just happened in August of 2015.
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