Re: [AMC-List] Weird globules in gasoline

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: A buddy of mine had similar happen last year. Turned out something the 
gas company added to the fuel congealed in the tanks and ended up clogging 
the gas stations up too. (HUGE ruckus about that here. Probably $1 million 
in claims)


From: Nick Lenarz <n9viw@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-List] Weird globules in gasoline
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   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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