Blazemaster
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Oct 13, 2009
- Location
- Olympia, Wa
Here's a little back story. I recently picked up a new forklift and I have been getting ready to sell my old one. I've had the new one for a few months. I warmed up the old one and used it to change the main mast hose on the new lift. It sat idling for about 15 mins while I was testing/bleeding new hose on new lift. When I put the new lift away and came back, the old one had quit running. I thought it was fuel so put on a new tank and all it would do is crank. Turn's out there is still fuel in the old tank, it just quit running.
The old lift is a 60's propane towmotor lt-35 and has worked great for me. Once I rebuilt the regulator, it has always started easy and ran well. It has a 4 cyl n-62 continental flathead. Here is a list of things I have checked, at this point I'm kinda stumped.
-Cleaned propane reg
-Cleaned carb
-Cleaned/regapped points
-Cleaned air filter
-Did compression test(all seem fine)
It's getting fuel to the carb. I can hear fuel flowing when purge button pressed.
It's getting spark (seems to be nice strong blue spark)
It's getting air (removed air filter to test)
It doesn't seem to want to even cough with a shot of starting fluid. It's just ironic this thing has run great for a few years, but as soon as I want to sell it I can't get the thing to come to life. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Here is a pic I found on the site of the same lift, mine just doesn't have the roll bar.
The old lift is a 60's propane towmotor lt-35 and has worked great for me. Once I rebuilt the regulator, it has always started easy and ran well. It has a 4 cyl n-62 continental flathead. Here is a list of things I have checked, at this point I'm kinda stumped.
-Cleaned propane reg
-Cleaned carb
-Cleaned/regapped points
-Cleaned air filter
-Did compression test(all seem fine)
It's getting fuel to the carb. I can hear fuel flowing when purge button pressed.
It's getting spark (seems to be nice strong blue spark)
It's getting air (removed air filter to test)
It doesn't seem to want to even cough with a shot of starting fluid. It's just ironic this thing has run great for a few years, but as soon as I want to sell it I can't get the thing to come to life. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Here is a pic I found on the site of the same lift, mine just doesn't have the roll bar.