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RE: vopor lock

To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: vopor lock
From: "Greg Rowe" <growe58@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 19:11:17 -0400
Pop open the gas cap when the car dies.  If you get a whoosh of inrushing 
air,
your charcoal canister line is plugged.

Greg Rowe

>From: elliottr@rmi.net
>
>On Tue, Jul 5, 2005 at 12:38 PM, d t gebhard wrote:
>
> >         Well here it is 4th of July weekend and I'm not driving the
> > > Spit...vapor lock or at least that's what I think it is. Symptoms, let 
>it idle
> > > to get hot. drive away with plenty of go but then 
>chugga,chugga,chugga,die.
> > > Let cool, restart. Repeat. I've moved the fuel line to go near the 
>firewall
> > > and built what I thought to be an effective heat shield. I will 
>entertain any
> > > and all ideas. It's still got the original fuel pump and stromburg 
>carb.
> > >
> > >             Thank
> > >             Dave Gebhard
> > >             1972 Spit





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