1967 Chevy Nova Fuel Issues

DKURBER

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1967 CHEVROLET NOVA
V8
2WD
MANUAL
67,000 MILES

I have a Chevy II Nova with a 327 and four speed Muncie. I was driving and as I approached the stop sign, the car died. After ten minutes I was able to get it started by giving it tons of gas. Now, after it sits, I can get it started but then it dies. I unscrewed the bolt on the top back (might be a measureing needle type device) and gas poured out. I pulled the filter from the carb and the carb leaked out gas. Is it possibley the pump? Or, if I have gas going from filter to the carb, is the pump fine? Could it be the carb?

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 AT 11:13 AM

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JDL

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Hello, what type carb, manufacturer, how long since you put a carb kit in it? The kit will have instructions, carb specs.

Sometimes, I remove the airhorn, top part of carb, look at the fuel level. Some models I can remove the airhorn without removing the carb.

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Thursday, April 30th, 2009 AT 11:49 AM

DKURBER

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It is a Holly 600. It hasn't had a kit. Do you think it needs a rebuild? The floats were fine a week ago.I never had issues before. I checked to be sure there was no debris in the level measure (the bolt on the back top of carb) and it looked good. THere was debris in there about a month ago but I cleaned it out.

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Thursday, April 30th, 2009 AT 11:53 AM

JDL

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Hi, have you tried talking to Holley, they have a web site. I can give you general info, but those folks don't work on anything but Holley. They have a tech support phone number or you can email them. Just a thought.

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Thursday, April 30th, 2009 AT 12:30 PM