Posted by dstates on May 27, 2012 at 09:49:11 from (173.27.246.62):
Well, after a lot of planning and good advice from you guys I made the 300 mile trip to see if I could get my Grandpa's '52 H on the trailer and back to my place. I hoped to get it started (even if it took some work) in hopes to drive it off the trailer, but no luck.
After moving a 656 that didn't start out of the way, my dad and I started with the fuel tank. The fuel was pretty nasty and wouldn't flow so we took the sediment bowl completely out from the tank and let the old fuel drain. While we had that off we found that the cap of the sediment bowl was completely clogged. After working on that for a while we got it opened up and put some new fuel in the tank. We could get fuel to the carb, but not even a drop came out of the drain plug. We decided at that point to go ahead and load it up on the trailer and take it to my dad's place and work on it the next morning. We were able to easily pull it up onto the trailer and get it the 100 miles to his place.
The next morning we started by pressure washing a bunch of the crud off and then removed the carb. We opened it up and found that the needle valve at the float would stick and wasn't letting any fuel. We clean up the carb and installed a new needle valve cartridge. I was getting ready to put a new gasket on and realized the throat (is that the right term?) needed to come out of the carb body in order to install the gasket correctly. The throat had a square shape to it so I thought, maybe it threads in. I put an adjustable wrench on it and just started to turn on it and the throat broke. Knowing at that point that we wouldn't get it started, I cleaned up and pulled it home.
Now I have it here where I can work on it and have my first project... fix the carb. I'll probably put another thread out there asking for help with that :)
Thanks again for everyone advice. I'm sure I'll need more as I really dig into this machine.
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