You need to remove the gas line at the carburetor and see if there's a full stream of gas. Hold a clean container and catch the gas. You should have a stream like after drinking about 12 beers. If you have a good flow of gas and not just a trickle there's a screen behind that fitting where your gas line connects and it may be full of dirt or rust. If you don't have a good flow of gas your tank may have some blockage over the outlet hole in the tank. These old tanks are rusty and dirty. Make sure your main jet at the bottom of the carburetor is opened enough, that's where your engine get's it enrich fuel mixture on some of these old tractors. These old updraft carburetors don't have accelerator pumps like cars and trucks had back before fuel injection was used. Some had 2 barrel carburetors and some had 4 barrels. When you wanted more power you just pushed the accelerator to the floor. We had dual 4 barrel carburetors on each Ford engine on this vehicle we used for drawbar pull on military vehicles. Now it would suck up plenty of gas. Hal
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