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Hello, I have a 1961 Farmall 460, I recently bought it and am having problems starting it. It has sat for a little over a year. I am getting spark to the plugs. I cleaned the carb completely and checked to make sure there is no clogs anywhere but dont seem to be getting any fuel to the plugs. It will puff and pop with starter fluid but no starting. Anyone with suggections? Also what are the settings for the idle screw and the bottom screww. I read somewhere that the bottom screw shoould be turned out 3 1/2 turns or it will be rich.
 
Hold your hand over the throat of the carburetor and see if you have good suction while a helper makes an attempt to start the engine. If you have very little suction means your intake manifold vacuum is low. Check your intake manifold to make sure it is tight. Do a compression check and see and compare your readings. Valves could be leaking, rings stuck in the ring lans (grooves) and worn sleeves. You need good intake manifold vacuum to draw that atomized fuel into the combustion chamber. Hal
 
Did you add any fresh gasoline before you tried to start it? After sitting for a year the light ends of the gasoline may have evaporated resulting in fuel that does not readily vaporize.
 
You may want to make sure your firing order is correct. Someone may have done a "Tune up" and put the plug wires on in wrong order. Happened to me this summer on an oliver 77. (Which, Stupid Oliver, they didn't cast the firing order on the block, had to look at another 77 to figure out what was going on. It took a while to arrive at this conclusion.)
 
With the main mixture the 460 will run at 3.5 out, max power is 5 turns. It is not adjusted like the non-super H and M. Idle screw is set so that it runs smooth, initial setting without looking it up is 1 turn out.
 
Remove No1 sparkplug near the radiator and bring that piston to TDC on the compression stroke. Once you have No1 piston at TDC remove the distributor cap and see where your rotor is pointing. Note which way the rotor is turning.
Your plug wires need to be in this firing order on the cap for the engine to start and run. Hal
1-5-3-6-2-4
 
Not to start an argument, but, I suggested the firing order / timing because in my quite limited expirience (I'm 23, I don't know it all but am willing to share what I know when it can help) If the timing is completely and totally wrong and you actually are getting fuel (Even if it is ether) and you have decent spark all that will happen is a backfire and a bang now and then and you will be competely dumbfounded as to how it is not running right now because you've done everything that seems logical and it still isn't running. I don't mean to offend, I'm just saying. I could be completely wrong on this and am barking up the wrong tree. It is hard to know what is really going on when you're not standing in front of it.
 
The distributer cap has the numbers stamped on it and the block has raised numbers, I assume that is the firing order. I just matched the numbers starting from the front of the block hopeing that the front is the number 1 piston. I appreciate any help always.
 
I think that the firing order is the raised numbers on the left side of the block. I used the front of the block as number 1 and matched the numbers stamped on the distributer. Thanks.
 
I did that to see if I was getting spark at the points before going futhor. I then checked the plugs to make sure they were getting spark and they were also.
 
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