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Old May 1st, 2017, 01:22 PM
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Morning 65 Barn,
You should clean the carb. on general principal, but IF the truck as an older original fuel pump, you should change that as well as the diaphragm may be bad.

JAke

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Cool. Next question is the carburetor, mine has a hard time starting, it sat overnight and once again I had to poor some gas down the carb to get it to start. Fuel pump issue? Maybe stuck float? It had been sitting for 2 years before I got it. I'm going to change the gas filter. It looks like someone added an inline filter before the pump in addition to the one at the carb. I assume the one at the carb is just a screen or is there a little filter in the 90 degree fitting?
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