My own worst enemy
Sometimes I can be my own worst enemy. After the last 2 days of working on the Scrambler I felt like punching myself repeatedly in the face. Not the kind of punches that give you a black eye , no , the ones that break your orbital bone leaving your eye to fall out of the socket bearly held on by the optic nerve. What happened that would make me pummel myself into near coma like conditons? Read on my friends. 
2 days ago I got the rebuilt Mc2100 , and hei igniton humming along together in perfect unison. I probably spent a 1/2 hour just listening to it idle away with no blips or blurbs before finally shutting it down. I even put in a tech question thread that Id check it in the morning to see how well she fired in cooler temps. I came down the next morning, she fired for a couple seconds and went dead. What didnt I get right? What didnt I do? What did I miss or mess up. What an inept pile of doo doo I must be.
I spent a good 5 hours the last 2 days figuring this out. I messed with the mixture screws a bit and all I could get out of it was a backfire and sputter now and then. I could never get it to run long enough to adjust the carb when it was running. For some reason it just wouldnt idle. I said to myself "fine" and went back to the old carb that I hadnt messed with. to my suprise the same freakin thing happened. Then I finally just sat back and realized one important factor.
I was out of gas.
What made it even worse was I walked up to the corner gas station with $5 to put in my 2 gallon can. I was watching the pump nozzle cause I didnt want to overflow it. When I turned my head to look I was already at $6. I had to leave the gas there and go back to get another $1
Its funny now but wow was I pissed. So Im back where I started originally and have to swap carbs again!!! Im thinking that for once I want a Cj with a working fuel gauge.
Honestly I just want others to learn from my stupidity. I "KNEW" I screwed something up fuel delivery wise. I just didnt know that the screw up was not adding fuel.
2 days ago I got the rebuilt Mc2100 , and hei igniton humming along together in perfect unison. I probably spent a 1/2 hour just listening to it idle away with no blips or blurbs before finally shutting it down. I even put in a tech question thread that Id check it in the morning to see how well she fired in cooler temps. I came down the next morning, she fired for a couple seconds and went dead. What didnt I get right? What didnt I do? What did I miss or mess up. What an inept pile of doo doo I must be.
I spent a good 5 hours the last 2 days figuring this out. I messed with the mixture screws a bit and all I could get out of it was a backfire and sputter now and then. I could never get it to run long enough to adjust the carb when it was running. For some reason it just wouldnt idle. I said to myself "fine" and went back to the old carb that I hadnt messed with. to my suprise the same freakin thing happened. Then I finally just sat back and realized one important factor.
I was out of gas.
What made it even worse was I walked up to the corner gas station with $5 to put in my 2 gallon can. I was watching the pump nozzle cause I didnt want to overflow it. When I turned my head to look I was already at $6. I had to leave the gas there and go back to get another $1Its funny now but wow was I pissed. So Im back where I started originally and have to swap carbs again!!! Im thinking that for once I want a Cj with a working fuel gauge.
Honestly I just want others to learn from my stupidity.
I "KNEW" I screwed something up fuel delivery wise. I just didnt know that the screw up was not adding fuel. 
Took it out for a spin and hit first and hit the gas ran great, second no problem, third at 2000rpm it started to sputter and spit,
thing. Did this about three times
same relsults!!! Well now I'm pissed, then it comes to me the only thing I didnt do is set the dry float setting. Well I looked at the old needle valve and fitting guess what I found two washer on the end of the old needle valve and only one on the new fitting causing the float to be set to low running the bowl out of gas. After resetting the float to 1/4" bolted the carb up and went back to readjusting everything. Took her for a ride and she runs great now. Lesion learned just do every thing and dont think I'm not messing with the float level don't need to adjust it. WRONG!!!!!!!!
