Ironhead engine problem?
 

Hey guys I have a 76 xlch, I was having a problem where the engine was stuttering when I would open the throttle, it wouldn’t happen all the time and some days were better than others. I first thought carb, since the carb would also spill a lot of gas on kick start(sometimes a lot other times not so much). I rebuilt the carb, noticed that the fuel bowl nozzle wasn’t spraying gas tried to clean, eventually I bought a new fuel bowl( it’s a bendix 38mm carb) and put it back together. At first it was difficult to start, but I messed around with the jet settings and eventually I got it going. It rode pretty good for about two days, today I took it out, I noticed it was backfiring and stuttering a bit. I tried to take off at a red light and it stuttered to go and turned off. I tried to turn it back on and was successful, but when I went to take off it kept stalling. Eventually It didn’t turn back on and I ended up walking about 2 miles back home. Any ideas or suggestions?

Are all your grounds good?

Not sure honestly. What should I look for?

crap in your fuel system, start with your tank, lines ,filter then your carb again

Still running points? Make sure your point gap hasn’t closed up, and make sure you don’t have a broken advance spring.

Fuel tank venting OK?

+1

These are classic ignition system issues associated with points, condenser and advance.

murphy's law states
it probably is the last thing i touched

Yeah I’m running points. I’ll have to look into that, I do notice that there is also crap in the tank, so I’ll have to take care of that as well.

I believe so, fuel seems to be flowing to the carb, there’s a good amount of fuel in the in line filter