Re: [AMC-List] Weird globules in gasoline

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like moisture/water problems to me.
You could have gotten bad gas or it could be coming from the tank itself.
Old fuel will do this type of thing also. Has the tank been dropped and cleaned out?
--
Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Nick Lenarz <n9viw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
>    I barely made it home yesterday! What a fiasco. Same old patient, my
> '82 AMC Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler, 258 I-6 with Carter BBD carb. 
>    Last night I was on my way to meet some friends, and the Jeep
> started bucking, bogging and spitting like I was running out of gas. I
> pulled into a local station and filled up, and it took 13 gallons so it
> did need some, but of a 20 gallon tank, I should have had at least 70
> more miles on it!
>    Pulling out, it did the same thing, so I figured I'd better hi-tail
> it home before it left me stranded. I did make it, but it would
> alternately run well, run well but stall at stoplights, or act like it
> was running out of gas. It stalled pulling into the driveway.
>    I pulled the carb and found these weird globules of stuff in the
> float bowl. Slightly amber-tinted, they moved like Jello that hasn't
> quite set up, or like semi-solid drops of oil in water. I poured the
> gas from the bowl out into a glass container, then poured it thru an
> old t-shirt. I took pictures of each of those steps, I'll have to post
> them to a photo site when I get home. I wiped out the float bowl, but I
> wish I'd taken a pic of it before I did. It looked as if someone had
> put tapioca pearls in my gas!
>    I disassembled and cleaned the carb from top to bottom, spraying out
> all ports with carb cleaner, then compressed air. I put it all back
> together, reinstalled the carb, and the Jeep ran like a top. Ran well
> all the way to work this morning, too.
>    The feed line is new from tank to fuel pump, but the return line is
> original, and due to be replaced. (as a side note- has anyone heard of
> brake line having some sort of lining to it? I'm using 10' of hand-bend
> brake line as fuel line from the tank to the pump, and I wonder if it's
> coming from that.) I now have THREE filters inline, but I didn't see
> anything like this stuff in either of the two I had before (one before
> the pump, one after). 
>    Has anyone else had such an experience with gelatinous goo from
> outer space in their carb?
>    
> 
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