View Poll Results: 46 ford leaves me on the side of the road everytime i drive it!!! what should i do?
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take out the flatty and smallblock it
2 11.11% -
sell the car and dont fight with it anymore
0 0% -
set it on fire and push it down a hill
1 5.56% -
keep workin on it till its right (even tho your fed up with it)
15 83.33%
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07-07-2009 04:43 PM #1
I'm outta ideas... PLEASE HELP!!!
hello everyone. im new here and im looking for help. i have a 46 ford with all origanal drivetrain, the 239 ran decent when i got it, then it started acting up, basicly what its doing is when the car get up to running temp (not hot) the car seems to loose spark and quit. if i let it sit for 15-20 mins it will start and run great till it gets up to temp and quits again. the part i dont get is i have replaced the following: DIS. CAP, ROTOR, POINTS, CONDENSER, RESISTOR, COIL, PLUGS, AND THE CARB, FUEL PUMP, FUEL TANK, AND ALL FUEL LINES, AND FILTERS. it has a brand new elec. pump and all the gas lines are no where near any heat, i was told it was vapor lock, but when the car dies it still has gas in the filter right behind the carb, and i can see its getting gas inside the carb, ALSO right when it dies i can jump out, pull a plug and it will have spark, but still refuse to start till it cools down a bit. seems to me if it has spark and fuel it should run right? not the case when im on the side of the road!!! this car has me baffled and im outta ideas, any help would be greatly apreciated. (hotrodwagon1@yahoo.com)
You're welcome Mike, glad it worked out for you. Roger, it's taken a few years but my inventory of excess parts has shrunk a fair bit from 1 1/2 garage stalls to about an eight by eight space. ...
1968 Plymouth Valiant 1st Gen HEMI