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chevyfumes

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Title says it all, go ahead and state the obvious. Siphoned some gas out of my Blazer and now it's not getting any gas to the carb, the tank still has fuel, I can hear it sloshing and I just filled it not too long ago and only took out about 6 gallons.

It's a '74 so could I have blocked a line by pushing a hose into the tank?
It's probably outta gas so I'll put some gas in it tomorrow but thought you guys could at least give me some feedback sh!t until then.:dunno::popcorn:
 
you probably sucked too hard and created a vacuum around the pickup, and the pump can't pull through it.. golfball, garden hose.. congrats fumes, you've made history
 
Fuel filter up front, either at the carb or in the fuel inlet? Especially the one in the inlet is famous for clogging REAL easy.

-- A
 
I pulled the hose on the filter by the carb, turned it over and dry as a bone.
I was also focking around with the fuse block trying to figure out what is wrong with my stereo. Is there a wire down there I could have knocked lose? I know I have one on the back of my distributer that works lose sometimes ( checked it and its fine) that will make act like this.
I also pulled a spark plug and layed it on the block and am getting spark.:dunno:
 
chevyfumes said:
I pulled the hose on the filter by the carb, turned it over and dry as a bone.
I was also focking around with the fuse block trying to figure out what is wrong with my stereo. Is there a wire down there I could have knocked lose? I know I have one on the back of my distributer that works lose sometimes ( checked it and its fine) that will make act like this.
I also pulled a spark plug and layed it on the block and am getting spark.:dunno:
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interesting development... just like a pubescent teen with his first car, it won't start, but you feel the need to fix the radio so you can sit in it and kill the battery listening to nirvana
 
Dump some gas down the carb, it might get it to suck some gas through. Also you can unhook your fuel line from the carb and then take an air hose and a rag. stick the hose in the fuel neck with the rag around it, blow into the tank until fuel comes out of the fuel hose at the carb.
 
bigbadchev84 said:
Dump some gas down the carb, it might get it to suck some gas through. Also you can unhook your fuel line from the carb and then take an air hose and a rag. stick the hose in the fuel neck with the rag around it, blow into the tank until fuel comes out of the fuel hose at the carb.
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Had my kid drop some fuel down the carb then I turned it over, it promptly started, died, then caught fire.:haha:The expression on his face was priceless followed by a mad dash for a clean rag to cover it while I shook my head at him.
I'll try the air, thats a good one.:thumb:
 
Using a makeshift funnel, put some gas in the fuel bowl using the bowl vent. You should be able to get 20 seconds or more worth of running time that way, no fires, and if the fuel ump is going to work, it will be working by then.
 
Had my kid drop some fuel down the carb then I turned it over, it promptly started, died, then caught fire.:haha:The expression on his face was priceless followed by a mad dash for a clean rag to cover it while I shook my head at him.
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To quote Mrs. Slocum, it must just be magic around your house......

Sure sounds like its out of gas. You may have bent the pickup tube so that its not as deep in the gas as it used to be.

Not sure what the air trick will do. The tank is vented, but I'm not sure to where in 74.
Later ones, you would probably blow the charcoal canister off the front, but maybe not on this one.

Might be better to blow back though the fuel line towards the tank with the cap off. You should be able to hear the bubbling in the tank if the pickup is under the gas level.

Be warned though. I watched this done on a route truck at our plant many years ago. There was a piece of plastic that someone had shoved into the tank, and it would randomly block the gas flow.

The mechanic decided to see if it was something blocking the line, so he hooked air to the fuel line with the cap off.
Tank was almost full, and a huge stream of gas shot out the filler hole.

Unfortunately, the plastic did not come out, so he wound up dropping the tank, draining it, and finally spotting the plastic.

I had nothing to do with that, but I noted it for future use.

Of course, I have never had an occasion to use it against people who tick me off since...............
 
Well, I had a slightly more smartass idea. How many goats you got? If you have to go somewhere with the Blazer, just hitch up a few...........

I wanted to include a youtube link to the Viagra commerical where the idiot gets stuck in a 4wd truck with a horse trailer behind him.
I guess he does not know how to put it in 4wd, so he takes the horses out and hooks them to the front and lets them pull him out.

But, I could not find it. All I could find was this one. Not exactly on topic, but I like it.................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIq_FrE6MKw
 
I had a friend who bought a 1962 Valliant that would run fine for several minutes and stall,and refuse ro start again until it sat at least 10 minutes...he replaced the fuel pump ,carb,and just about every other component that bolted to the engine-with no improvement..finally pulled the tank down to clean it and found the tank was like new inside,but it had about a dozen ping pong balls floating on top of the gas...evidently they would get sucked down against the "sock" filter and restrict the flow of gas till it quit,then after sitting awhile the vacuum dies off and they floated back to the surface...

The car only had 35K on it,a "grandma's" car,and it wasn;t until my friend got so ticked off at the car and sold it that the cause was discovered--the next "lucky" owner was willing to pull the tank down,he wasnt,he had enough of that car!..he said why bother,I know the tank wont be dirty and nothing else is wrong inside it...he was half right...:D

I'd guess the siphon hose snagged on your pick up tube to the sending unit,may have snalled it off or kinked it ,maybe the sock fell off it too??...

The wiring you disturbed might have blown a fuse for the fuel pump maybe??..
 
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