[Tigers] Unusual Vapor Lock

[e.coiner at cox.net]

Vapor lock is possible.

Refineries change the blend of molecules in the gas depending on the season.
Winter blend vaporizes more easily. Summer blend less so.
Your November gas would be more susceptible to vapor lock than Summer blend.
Erich
---- Stu Brennan <stubrennan at comcast.net> wrote:
> I was headed up to the Bass cruise night at Gillette tonight.  Temperature
> just under 80F, breezy, nice weather.  I was waiting a light for less than a
> minute and suddenly I heard the fuel pump, a Facet in the stock location,
> vapor lock.  Not a first, but Ibve never heard it do that in such benign
> conditions.  It did it again as I crept around trying to work my way into a
> parking space.  Usually the only time I get vapor lock is on a really hot
> day when I stop the engine, and try to restart just a couple minutes later,
> and it clears itself in a few seconds.   Never while running.
>
> This was just the third time Ibve driven it this year, so Ibm still using
> last yearbs gas, the last purchase probably in November.  And yes, I did
add
> a stabilizer last fall.
> My question:  Does relatively old gas like this tend to have more of a
> vaporization problem?   Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
>
> Stu
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