Originally Posted by hd4unm
If not why is your gas draining or drying out within this short of time? Never heard of this.
It's actually fairly common. If you think about the intimate contact between the intake and exhaust manifolds transferring heat to the carburetor as well as the natural flow of heat up around the carburetor it's not surprising that the bowl dries out when they sit for a while. A fair amount of it happens soon after shutting the vehicle off. That's why it's often difficult to hot start one of these old Chevys. Some of the gas boils out of the bowl and fills the intake runners with vapor. It's like trying to start a hot vehicle with the choke on. After a while you just get used to it. If my '38 sits for a couple of weeks the bowl is dry.

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