RagTop
Old Grumpy
Had the vert at a local cruise in last night. The event was about 20 miles from my house and the car ran fine all the way over to the show. At the end of the evening I started it up and began to pull out of my parking spot and the engine died. Not a big deal with my cam under cold engine conditions. I re-started and the car started to miss really badly. I had to re-start several times to get out of the parking lot. I figured the fouled plug would clear itself once I was running. Got out onto a main boulevard and made it about a block and the car just died. Wouldn't even re-start or sputter. I was in a right turn lane but there was nowhere to go on these modern divided boulevards. I popped the hood and smelled gas. I removed the top of the air cleaner and hoped it would dissipate. No joy and no start. AAA towed me home and planted me in the driveway because it wouldn't start at all to crawl up the driveway into its garage stall. This morning I went out and fired it right up. Within seconds the idle got really rough and I could hear a clunk, clunk of a big time miss. I crept it into the garage and there it died again. I've got it to fire since but it begins to miss and dies, so I haven't checked the spark. The gasoline stench had returned, leading me to wonder about the Road Demon carb. If the Pertronix Ignitor or the Pertronix Flamethrower coil were bad I doubt it would run at all, although a weak spark could cause the misfiring. I checked the float bowl sight glasses and the fuel level is about mid glass. I'm absolutely awful at diagnosing and troubleshooting. Any ideas what could be wrong with my baby?