another step closer

Last night I put 5 gallons of gasoline in the tank and hooked the jumper cables up to see if Randi would start... after a lot of cranking, the answer was not yet!  I got some promising almost-starts, but more work is needed before she will run on her own. The carburetor is flooding gas like crazy, it looks like the floats are stuck and the idle tubes are fouled... time for a rebuild. That will give me a chance to check out more of the vacuum lines as well - I've already spotted a number of empty ports and hoses, and a couple of controls that have broken ports.