New Member with 1973 Dodge Challenger 340 4 Speed

[69ChargerRT]

good looking car, hope you decide to keep it!

[76300djs]

Thanks, It is a keeper for sure!  Just have to find a shop to bring it up to par and then some.  One bummer though it wouldn't start.  It turned right over without any problem at all.  I changed the plugs, and then found out it wasn't getting any gas to the carb.  So I popped the fuel line off the carb, turned it over and still no gas.  Changed the full pump and still no gas.  The tank had been empty and I put a little over two gallons of premium in.  So not sure what the problem is.  But The way it turned over and the way the wires, distributor and everything looked I am pretty sure it would have started if the fuel was flowing.

[jimynick]

Congrats on the decent condition of your car! As for getting it to run, you could do what I did with mine- it's kind of a Bruce county gas tank deal. Just take the tank line off the gas pump and run a length of neoprene gas hose from there to a 1 gallon gas can that you can wire to the rad support. Pour a shot glass of gas down the carb and crank 'er. I'd pull it out of the barn before trying to start it- safety first! 

[76300djs]

Thank you.   I was thinking about doing that but ran out of time.  I drove from Bay City Michigan to Binghamton NY and stupid me only prepared to stay for one day.  Then after I got there it dawned on me I should have taken a couple days off from work.  I was talking with a couple buddies about it last night and they were saying the fuel line running from the carb to the fuel pump needed to be primed with gas.