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kubes40 |
05-30-2023 @ 4:18 PM
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Guys, TomO is perhaps the sharpest ol' boy I have had the privilege to know. I'd take certain heed of his advice. Vaporlock? I have NEVER experienced it. NEVER. Folks that know me, know my cars are built correctly. No short cuts. TomO has been helpful numerous times in those endeavors. Bottom line? Yes, vapor lock most likely exists but if the car is set up properly, the odds of it happening are near zero.
Mike "Kube" Kubarth
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JayChicago |
05-31-2023 @ 11:33 AM
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Chucky I agree. Follow TomO's good advice. I suspect at this point we don't know if it is a fuel problem or a spark problem. The simplest test in the world exists to confirm/eliminate fuel delivery as a suspect. Step 1 should be looking down the carb as TomO describes, when the problem occurs.
This message was edited by JayChicago on 5-31-23 @ 12:34 PM
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carcrazy |
05-31-2023 @ 8:24 PM
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I have experienced vapor lock with my '53 Flathead. It took extreme conditions to make it happen. While driving through the desert in June of 2016 during an extreme heat wave where the ambient temperature was hovering around 120 degrees F and the engine coolant temp was 220 degrees F for mile after mile. At first the car would exhibit vapor lock after being parked. Later it suffered vapor lock while running down the highway at 55 MPH. Finally we had to pull off the road and spend the night in a roadside hotel. After that, we limited our driving during this continued heat wave to the hours of 6 am to 11 am. On these days at 11 am we would stop driving to spend the rest of the daylight hours in air conditioned places. The drive home through the desert took much longer than it would have in a modern car.
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chucky |
06-02-2023 @ 5:25 AM
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Thanks for all of your help guys. I will try all suggestions
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