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03-21-2015, 02:25 PM | #41 |
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Re: Fuel line shield to prevent vapor lock?
Anybody who says there is no such thing as vapor lock simply has never had it happen to them. Yet.
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03-21-2015, 04:31 PM | #42 |
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Re: Fuel line shield to prevent vapor lock?
Now there is a pyscological response if I have ever heard one ! Good answer !
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03-22-2015, 10:27 AM | #43 |
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Re: Fuel line shield to prevent vapor lock?
Install an electric fuel pump and the problem will dissappear.
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03-22-2015, 11:15 AM | #44 | |
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Yesterday I ran to O'Reilly's to get some MMO and didn't shut off the gas. Came, started the car and everything was fine. Hmmmm. When I got home I went through my usual routine, shut off gas, etc. Waited a few minutes and started it up, poppin' and belchin' Repeated this a few times and can't get it to miss when I leave the gas on. Sooo, I guess I shouldn't be shutting the gas off for short intervals. Except when parked overnight when everything cools down Actually when I first got the car ~7 months ago I never shut the gas off, even overnight, because it never leaked. But having read on The Barn about people's tank draining, I started shutting it off as a "safe" thing to do. Last edited by Y-Blockhead; 03-22-2015 at 11:26 AM. Reason: Grammer |
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03-22-2015, 11:39 AM | #45 |
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Re: Fuel line shield to prevent vapor lock?
Royce,
I had a 36 HP VW engine that had a fresh rebuilt engine and the #3 exhaust valve would stick. I'd pull over a use a screw driver to pull it closed. I complained to my boss the mechanic that rebuilt it and he said use MMO. It never stuck again and that engine, 30 years later is still in the car. I Also had a VW type two and always used MMO. When I eventually sold it the guy buying asked how it could even compression? The oil cooler blocks air to #3, so it was always a problem.. Does it work? I don't know but I'll keep using it.
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03-22-2015, 04:04 PM | #46 |
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As we mostly are concerned with carburetors that work well enough that are as sophisticated as a flush toilet, with the vaporizer just above, heat shields and phenolic spacers worked well on my engine. In the picture my heat shield faces directly at the exhaust manifold reducing the radiant heat to the cast iron of the carburetor, all the shields I have seen thru the years are this way, the phenolic spacer slows down the heat traveling back to the carburetor after shut down. This reduced the carburetor temperature from 160* to 120*, another benefit was increased engine performance and perfect hot starts , I do have to admit that prior to this I never had any symptoms of vapor lock, --Go figure.
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