"Almost" made it to 1st car show

This weekend is the Muddy River Run here in the Fort. The only real kind of car ,truck show. Troy had asked if I was going to go, but really didn't have the $$ to spend . So he said he pay for my pre reg. We had both been working on our vans for over a month to get ready. I have been spending Many long nights in garage. Not done but a heck of alot better. So I take it out for a drive Fri afternoon ,I get to corner ,soon as I take off its starts coffing like its not getting any gas. Make it back to house.start checking everthing, don't Really find anything. Reset points,Change filters in line & carb,pull plugs& clean & regap. It was late and I "Think" I got it??? So load up all the stuff to go Sat AM. get 1 mile from home it starts doing it again(alot worse) Dies 6 times trying to go a block to turn around to get home. Spent all day Sat changing carb(striped out fuel fiter threads trying to stop leak ) re checking everthing. Runs great till you Try to give it any gas,then it want to die. Got all new filters ,fuel pump,and Ing stuff. Not sure whats going on??? Anybody want to buy a 64 Nodoor???

Sounds like what my 67 did to turn it from a driver to the van I need to restore. I had the hose between the fill pipe and the gas tank and the filter on the gas gage sending unit fall apart which sent debris throughout the fuel line and the carb. The result was a van that would be OK, and then start to sputter and die. Luckily I was able to get another driver, so I can work on the van at my leisure. Also could be what G-man says. Check both, but don't give up on your early.

Today I change diistributor, before I went out to check out Troys van ,and get T-shirt from run. Its still doing the same thing I changed carb yesterday,but will try carb spray,& check out cap. All the Ing parts,cap,wires, plugs & fuel pump have less than 70 miles on them.

gas cap vented? try taking a spin with it off and see ?
worth a shot...
i've had caps say "vented" on em and fail or not be enough
"vent"
or possible sending unit screen clogged?
sounds like a fuel supply problem

Simple to check if you have access to a portable boat gas tank. Hook it to the fuel line where it comes off the tank. If it cures your problem,drop the tank and clean it and the sender sock or replace as needed. If not,hook it straight to the carb(my tank has a squeeze ball to pump up the pressure in it so you can get by the fuel pump) Of course you could also disconnect the line from the pump and see if it squirts a good gas supply. No boat tank??? Just drop a line from the fuel pump into a portable gas tank and see if that works. There are several ways to check out the fuel issue.

Update. I tryed with gas cap off ,same problem. Unhook gas tank and tryed off gas can ,same thing,no change. Put on new fuel pump,same problem ???? It purrs when it idles but as soon as you push on gas it wants to die???

I imagine you did this, but are you certain of the set on timing? You aren't on the wrong side of top dead center??

Yes K I got it set a 4 BTDC. My Bro inlaw stoped by to take a listen he called his mechanic,and thats what he thought to. I also have checked compression and they were all the same(170) The plugs are kind of fouled,but if I lean it out it runs like crap. The thing I dont get it ran great till last week??? I had only got to drive it 68 mi before this happened???? (I had reset spedo when put in "newer" motor(out of a 68 Nova) Is there some internal problem I'm missing??? I think I checked everthing on the outside??? Hey Vanagain how much was that motor you got

Another long shot here, but check that there are no leaks in the intake manifold. A vacuum leak can cause erratic running. No gasket residue between the manifold and the carb? No cracks in the vacuum advance hose? The hose fitting for the vac advance is tight?
I killed a piston in my old Ford van when I did not scrape clean the manifold of old gasket and I had a vacuum leak under the carb on a trip to Mammoth Mountain and the motor ran crummy all the way and got too hot. When I saw the residual gasket it seemed too small to matter but it did.

Keep looking and you will eventually find the culprit, then we all will learn a valuable lesson.

Thank's for all the Ideas guys. I should of had this fixed Fri night and had my van at the show Sat. Don it seems to run worse when I sprayed the carb cleaner in it??, the motor seems to idle better at about 6 degrees BTDC. but still wants to die when you give it gas. The vac gage is reading 20(good on mine??) The dwell is at 31-32. I would like to put a HEI on my 250

Don, I put a spare distributor in on Sun AM to try to make it to show,it had diff condenser in it & breacker plate & wire. It didn't make any diff. So switch it back. But I haven't tryed to switch coil. Will try that today. Thank's again for all your input

Switch coil, didn't start,so put old one back on still won't start. I'm getting voltage on + side of coil,and have continuity on - side to distrbutor. Ran great Mon,didn't do anything to it but change coil so far today??? I must be getting close(I can dream ,right??)

Hey Tom, I had some similar problems, it was the resistor wire at the Plug in the doghouse. Everything looked ok on the outside, but the wire was burned down to 2 strands at the blade connector in the PLUG.

Well I took the test light and hooked it up like you said Don,and it is blinking. I'm getting 5.5 volts at + side of coil when I turn on key & 12 volts when I hit the starter. I'll get it to run, then I try again and it won't. Last time it was running it was still choking out when you give it gas.

Could it be flooding? Is there something causing too much gas to come out of the carb when you push the accelerator ( a missing jet or something)? Another long shot I sure is dumb for me to ask, but is the fireing order is right?

Timing Chain? Just throwing stuff at the wall...

Thank's Guys there are no dumb reply at this point. I have put diff rebuilt carb on it. It has timing gears on a Chevy I 6. And now its getting weirder??? Got it started this AM shut it off to hook up timing light, now it won't even turn over. Acts like batt is dead, but got batt charger on it. It said it charged??? Guess the wiring is frying out Just what I wanted to do (again) this weekend work on my van. I was hoping to put more than 68 mi on it this summer.