Runs fine at idle but when i loaded it on a trailer it floods bad

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Old man Lucas

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i´ve got a 78 with a 305 and rochester 2 barrle. was running fine at idle and very low speed. but when i was loading it on the trailer to go get some work done to it. all of a sudden it starts flooding, it barly got onto the trailer. . The carb was rebuilt about a month ago.
 

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Like David said, the float is likely set too high. It could also be the float is stuck, or maybe the fuel pressure is too high.
 

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Or it's not flooding and it's a different problem how did you determine it's flooding.
 

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