[Formulajones]

Originally Posted by Gator67

A friend here had similar symptoms with his car. Would just sputter and die after driving a few miles, wouldn't restart, then after 30 min or so would start up fine. Spent a ton of time trying to figure it out considered. Turned out there was debris in the tank. Enough to clog the sock and after sitting for a while it would unclog just enough to start again.

I had a 71 Corvette like that. Big flakes would attach themselves to the sock while running (sucking fuel) and would fall off after I shut it down.

Easy to see that scenario on a C3 vette as you can remove the filler cap and look straight down into the tank and see the sock.

There are more of these cars every day that have nasty tanks in them after 50-60 years and owners aren't even aware or don't think about that scenario.

Tanks are so easy to change and cheap to buy I've gotten to the point every classic car should just have it replaced by now.