1972 Monte Carlo Stall/Oil light
My late grandfather left me a 1972 Monte Carlo with very few miles on it. In an
attempt to keep his memory alive I preform routine maintenance on it and drive
it very seldom. While starting it the other day, I noticed it would turn over but
failed to start and run. Checked the battery and all good there. I pulled all 8
plugs from the engine block and all were wet. Assuming it was flooded, I
removed the plugs all at once, blew pressurized air into the block to dry and
blew off each of the plug heads. Returned all plugs tight and reconnected the
boots tight. Made sure all boots were tight at the distributor cap as well. I
pulled the air filter off and used compressed air to blow any excess fuel from
the carb. Double checked everything for posterity, turned the key and it fired
right up. Let it high idle for a moment and tapped the gas to bring it down to
about 10,000 rpm and let idle some more. Backed it out of the driveway no
problem and as soon as I put it into drive the engine stalled and I had to grab a
neighbor and my wife to push it back into the drive way/garage. The oil light
"flashes" (sometimes its on and sometimes not, it doesn't blink repeatedly) on
the dash and now the car fails to start again. I'm at a loss..... any information
or insight to the problem would be greatly appreciated. (all parts on the car are
original)
