Weirdbeard

Stock mechanical pump. The float is free and working. Is there a screw on the carb or anything else that controls the fuel pressure or is it just the pump that regulates it? I noticed that if the electric choke is closed it pours in fuel and if it’s fully open there’s no fuel until I give it throttle. This is the oldest car I’ve owned so there is somewhat of a learning curve. I’m always open to more education on these cars!

I do have spark. I took the needle out and checked the seat and they are new as is the float. All gas was clean and no contamination. I did get it temporarily running today by having my son push the starter. I held the electric choke open with one hand and operated the throttle with the other. It would start and run rough and then start gushing gas out the linkage and small cap on the carb. It was so bad I had to get rags to catch the gas from running all over the exhaust manifold.

I did think of that. I’ll have to take a better look tonight. I opened it up to check that the float wasn’t stuck or had a hole in it. The gas looked perfect. Even when I siphoned out five gallons from the tank as my son shook the car I didn’t even get a speck of contamination. I drained it into a gallon water jug so I could observe it. It’s just strange how instantaneous it happened. Ran perfect until I filled up then immediately wouldn’t start.

Hello everybody. This is my first post since I joined. I recently purchased a 1936 Dodge d2 touring sedan all original. It ran fine for days until I went and filled it up with non ethanol gas. The gas gauge was on empty so I stopped at the gas station. Immediately after filling up, the car struggled to start. When I finally got it started it ran extremely rough. It would stall if I took my foot off the gas pedal. I drove around five miles and it lost power and made so much noise that I was sure the engine blew up. After pulling over I noticed it wasn’t getting any fuel to the carb. The sediment bowl was full but someone installed a clear fuel filter before the carb and it was dry. Luckily the weather was nice for my two mile walk home. I arrived with my wife and tow strap to pull it home. I decided to try one more time to start it and surprisingly it did! Still running rough I made it to my driveway and it stalled again. Since then I pulled the fuel pump and verified it worked. There is also fuel in the filter now but it won’t start. I even siphoned out half the gas in the tank so it was at the level as when I bought the car. It smells like maybe it’s flooding and I can see gas seeping out around the linkage. Sorry for the long post but I was trying to be as detailed as possible. I’m just baffled that this all started by filling it with gas. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!