Having spent as much time as I did this summer getting the carburetor to run correctly on my '79 Catalina, I couldn't help but think of the scene in Ace Ventura Pet Detective when Jim Carrey's Monte Carlo won't start, and the guy is smashing up his car with the baseball bat. He says no problem, it gets flooded, we'll just wait a few seconds.
What would cause his carburetor to flood the engine when it's just sitting there after he turned it off a half hour before coming back to it? I always found that scene amusing, and having had to start my Catalina after accidentally pumping the pedal on a hot engine, I've flooded mine a couple times and found at least that part somewhat relatable. Unlike his, mine did clears within a couple seconds of cranking with the throttle wide open. Haha.
Back in the stone age, if i flooded the engine, I would take the cover off the air cleaner and hold the butterfly open with a screwdriver handle, and start the car that way. It always worked. Of course that was when cars were made simply before they were screwed up with computers!
That was an option, though not in his case, haha. Holding the pedal to the floor does the same as opening the butterfly valve by hand. My girlfriend's dad taught me that as I was getting ready to drive my car out of the field it was in. I was wondering why his car would flood itself just sitting undisturbed.
Movies tend to take a fair amount of artistic license. I'd say though the most likely scenario where something like that would happen is if due to the situation instead of thinking things through he kept blindly pumping the pedal trying to get the car to start.
It's possible that the carb float was bad and kept feeding gas into the engine
but then Jim Carry didn't just play an idiot.
it came natural for him! {pear}:exhausted: