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Re: Mixture woes

To: "Rick Lindsay" <rick@stoolhead.com>
Subject: Re: Mixture woes
From: "Michael Lowe" <mlowe@itrade-sa.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:54:50 -0600
Greetings,

I will agree completely with David. Formula Fords have the same problem with
the electric fuel pumps with too much pressure. The pressure regulator was a
little secret for a while back in the old days.

Regards,
Michael Lowe



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Scheidt" <dmschei@attglobal.net>
To: "Rick Lindsay" <rick@stoolhead.com>
Cc: "Shop Talk" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 16:37
Subject: Re: Mixture woes


> > (1) Can the outer choke be flooding liquid gasoline
> > past the throttle plate, dribbling down into the
> > plenum and being preferentially sucked into #1 and #4
> > causing a grossly over-rich mixture while leaving the
> > vapor-phase charge right for #2 and #3?
>
> What's the fuel pressure?  I had a 32/36 DGV on a Land-Rover, and had
> problems with it running rich when the fuel pressure was too high.  The
> fuel inlet needle valve isn't very strongly pressed on the seat, and
> more than 4 PSI or so is enough to push it open.  I'm not sure where
> the excess fuel ends up leaving the carb and joining the mixture.  A
> replacement fuel pressure regulator fixed that pretty easily.






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