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How good of quality is the rubber line they installed? I've seen rubber line sucked shut and not allow fuel to be pulled through it. Maybe you can try a piece of fuel injection rated fuel hose and see if that helps it. By the way, sweet Burb!

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I never thought of fuel line sucking closed but it's worth a try. Good thought Diesel. If this is the case that new fuel line must be terrible quality. I've also seen fuel line have a pin hole and suck air causing a symptom like this

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I will try this if all else fails. It just sucks because I will have to drop the tank.

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It does suck, have ya called the shop that did it and tell 'em about it. Maybe they have an idea of where they messed up

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I have been in contact with them and they have been very cooperative. I had taken the filter off Wed night and ran it without a filter to mark that off the list and it did not change things. At this point I had a fuel line in a gas can and it ran great. So last night I relaced the filter and little bit of rubber line and it fired up and I drove it around the block a couple of times. It got dark so I stopped messing with it after that since I do not have a garage. I am interested to see if it starts tonight when I get off work. It ran great Monday night and I ran it for probably 15 minutes while driving around but Tuesday it wouldn't start from the tank again. If it doesn't start tonight I am thinking the must be a hole in the line somewhere.

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Well good luck on it starting tonight, let us know how it goes.

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Very nice burb

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Swap the vent line and the fuel pickup line, maybe they hooked them up backwards....

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Well I took it into a different shop this morning because I can not figure it out. The truck started Friday night no problem. I woke up Saturday and drove it into town which is about a 15 mile trip and everything went fine. I came home and drove the family all around the area by the house. It was doing great but on the way back it seemed like it was starving for fuel so I just parked it for the night. I get up the next morning and drive into town and it dies once I get into town. I changed the fuel line from the hard line to the new filter thinking it was too short and kinked. It fired back up and I drove home and when I was almost there it backfired. I got it home and parked it. Later in the day I decided to take it for a drive to see if it would act up. I drove it a few miles and it died a couple of times but would start back up. I took it back home and decided I would take it to a new shop Monday morning. I got up this morning and while driving into town it back fires so bad it blew out my brand new muffler. They are going to check it out and let me know what the find. Thery are going to put a fuel regulator on it so they can get a reading. When I changed the fuel line to the filter the fuel came flying out of the line like there was a ton of pressure.

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good luck

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I know these types of problems are frustrating and I hope they get it fixed for you, nice looking burb and I'd like to have a roof rack like that on mine.

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Thanks guys. I hope to hear something from them tomorrow.

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I'm guessing timing is off or the carb.

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Good luck with it. That sucks about the new muffler too.

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At least it looks good!
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Thanks. I took it to the muffler shop and both mufflers were blown. It looked like a stick of dynamite went off inside one of them. It is now back at the shop so they can check it out. I had hoped to already have it back.

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Did you change anything in the ignition at all? This is starting to sound spark related. I say this because Back when I was young (a long long time ago) we used to shut off the key while going down the road. We would wait a few seconds turn it back on and BOOM it would back fire. Sometimes blowing the mufflers up. Just a thought.

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I have not changed anything yet. It sat at the shop from Monday til today. The shop called today and said they needed the mufflers replaced to work on it. I thought they would weld on new mufflers but i had to drive it about 7 miles one way to the muffler shop and back. It gave me no problems driving it there with two blown mufflers and did ok on the way back until about a half mile from the shop it died ( think it flooded??) I fired it back up and it back fired shortly after but nothing like before. I limped it to the shop and they are going to finally look at it tomorrow. It is an attention getter for sure.

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Carb floats set too high?

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It is a stock 1406 Eldebrock out of the box. I do not think the first shop touched it so hopefully it just needs tuned. I am still thinking I have some sort of fuel pressure problem. I have had trouble getting fuel at times and trouble getting too much. When I was trouble shooting and changing the fuel filter as soon as I released the line it shot all the way up on the underside of the hood. I also am having a vibration in the driveline. I am planning to change gears so if it is the rearend I will not be upset. I am just hoping it is not the 700R4.

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Search Edelbrock carb issues.
Lots of "out of the box" problems.
Float too high.
Won't take any more that 5.5psi.
So a stock fuel pump that puts out 6-7 psi will need to be regulated down.

Just a thought.
I assume you have the correct gas cap?

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Thanks for the info. They are going to put a gauge on it to check the fuel pressure. It is a vented tank and I even made sure I had a vented cap just in case. It is a fuel problem so it could very likely be the carb. I hope to hear something tomorrow.

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Hey BB72CHEVKT ...

Just wanted to that is one sweet ride :metal:

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Just letting ya know I'm watching let us know. I'm starting to think your flooding or losing spark intermittently. It will be interesting to see what they find
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I had an inline filter along with the one on the carb. Took the one out of the carb and it fired up. I want to keep the inline since its see thru for a while so I can see if anything is coming out of the tank. I'll eventually take it out and go back to the carb filter.