Jim---If you're careful, and want to be inventive, try the following:
Connect the rubber hose that connects the fuel line to the carbs and
connect it to the bottom of a funnel of appropriate size. Hold the
funnel higher than the carbs and pour a few oz. of gas into it. IF...the
float needle(s) aren't stuck closed, the float bowls should have been
near empty, and would now accept the fuel. (Tap on the bottom of each
carb with something, just in case..)
Have your accomplice try the starter. If your engine will now run for a
half minute or so, on the "emergengy fuel" you'll know for sure it
has/had a fuel delivery problem.
It will also give the engine cam's eccentric a shot at whipping on the
pump lever several hundred times. The open end of the fuel line should
be directed towards a container, on the possiblilty of fuel gushing out.
If it doesn't break lose, you should then determine that fuel is getting
as far as the pump before taking the pump off for repair or exchange.
Dick
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