[77 TRASHCAN]

Yeah, modern gasoline's evaporate sooo easily. I was working on a 2 Bbl carb for a friand. I set it in a small steel bucket that had enough capacity to completely submerge that carb. I let it set for a couple of days, that helped with all the slime and grime, inside and outside...

I left the dirty gas in the bucket, put a 5 gal bucket over top, to keep the dirty gas from evaporating.........I needed to move that bucket of gas 3 month's later, it was completely gone...

I don't drive my 77 T/A much. Something I learned from an old job (we had lot of old gas powered buses that sat around for a long time between starts..
I pump the throttle to set the choke, then crank the engine for 5-10 seconds, some times it will maybe hit on one cylinder, I then turn ign swi off, THEN pump accelerator 3-4 times, it usually firs right off. The point being, will that carb with gas before you utilize the acc pump to get the extra needed in engine to start.....