About Dick Benjamin Expertise I can help on most American passenger cars built between 1930 and 1970, and Imperials through 1983.
I have over 50 years experience in restoring and maintaining antique and classic cars, including 20 years operating a classic car repair shop. I am now retired, but I am willing to help with any questions of a technical or mechanical nature. I have more experience with Packard, Studebaker, Hudson, Imperial and other luxury makes, but I do have reference material and experience with most makes.
I do not know anything about modifying cars - if that is what you want to know about, pick someone else. I keep them the way the factory built them, and I advise you to do the same, to maintain the value of the car and also for your safety.
I can only handle mechanical or technical questions - I am not a body/paint expert!
Experience
Past/Present Clients Currently support a technical advice service for the Imperial club, responsible for the technical data section of the Packard Club website. Served as a technical expert for "Expert Central" before it was recently absorbed by this service.
Question Hi again Dick
Thanls for aswnering it has a furl pump on the engin block I can see but very hard to get to
I tried puting gad in car and I also hooked a rubber hose and can to carb inlet with gas so it would supply the carb with gas it idled a little while but wouldn't rece
Also I put the hose from fuel pump in small container of gas but it would not pump gas.
)he inheareted it from his Dad)
Answer OK, I understand. I guess the next step is to disconnect the gas line at the fuel pump end and also at the tank end, then try to blow through the line. If it is blocked, you'll know you have to replace it. If it isn't blocked, you'll have to attach a substitute line to the tank outlet and try blowing back into the tank - if you can, then you should be able to get gas from the tank to the pump with everything hooked up. If you get that far, and the pump still doesn't produce gas, then it's time to buy it a new fuel pump.
If the car won't keep running with you manually feeding gas into the carburetor, it sounds like you may also have carburetor problems, but let's get the gas flowing as a first step, then we'll see what else needs to be done.
