Well the other day in Glenn's "Dang, starts right up again" post I told about rewiring the ignition on the Yard dog. I fired it up and it ran fine so I thought it was fixed. So today I tried to use it. It was doing the same old thing. It would start and run until I stepped on the clutch then cut off.

Now I know it's not the ignition wiring. So I changed the carburetor. It was still doing the same old thing. I changed the capacitor. It was still doing the same old thing. I popped the fuel line off the carb and had June spin the engine. No fuel.

Guess what? O'reilly has it in stock. I ran to town, got a fuel pump and installed it. Go to crank it up and the battery runs down before I get fuel to the carb.

Finally got it started and it runs fine again. I still haven't done the work I need to do though. In fact it still has a post hole digger dangling from the hook that was on it when it went down the first time.

The old fuel pump was the glass bowl type and the new one was the sealed up type. I decided to take the old one apart to see what it was made of. To my surprise all the working parts looked good in it. The problem was a solid coat of gunk. There is a very fine screen in there about 1" diameter and it was blocked with gunk. I believe this thing could be cleaned up and re-used. I also believe the top half, that the glass bowl fits on, could be mated to a new bottom half if you needed a new diaphram and were concerned with looking original.

"It's just a phase. He'll grow out of it." Mama, 1964

1956 Chevy 1/2-ton 3100
1953 Chevy 6100 "The Yard dog"
1954 GMC Suburban Now with a new proud owner.