I just finished figuring out why it was overheating after changing thermostat and water pump. Blowing out the heads water passages turned out to do the trick. I then proceeded to do the Sea Foam thing and blow out the carbon. Everything was fine. I even did it a couple times as I had never done it before and after doing it the first time and not picking up that much compression I decided to do the cylinders. Afterwards I blew out the cylinders like the dealer told me to do. (pulling the spark plugs and just pumping out the air as it compressed for about 5 seconds worth of turning over..)<br /><br />I ran it for 5 more minutes and then changed the plugs. Ran it for another 10 minutes and shut it down.<br /><br />Took it to the lake and their it started right up, ran for about 3 minutes and died for no apparent reason. Tried to start it again. Wouldn't stay running. Pulled the gas line looking for some kind of air lock. Made sure it was getting the gas to the pump. Would start occasionally at a high rate but die off as if it was starving for fuel. If you pump up the ball it gets pretty hard. On the way home I picked up a new fuel pump already assembled figuring it was the most likely culprit. <br /><br />Any thoughts? If it isn't the fuel pump I'm presuming I have to rebuild the carbs. Is that something I want to tackle? Done cars I've owned in the past carbs but not sure how similar this will be. Any advice on that? Dealer mentioned balancing carbs is tricky.<br /><br />Thanks... Gary
