Glass fuel filters in the engine bay BAD IDEA! If glass breakes you have gas pumping guess where? Can you say crispy Texas BBQ?
One more thing that Davis mentions. You have all these fucking 'designer' fuels all over the US. What you find in Houston will not be same you find in Orlando, which will be different that crap in Phoenix and so forth. These 'blends' are added to fuel at refineries headed towards certain destinations. To clean the air, but also to make you vomit if stuck in traffic smelling that shit. Sometime I also do on several of my cars is run, not one, but TWO clear fuel filters. One in front of the fuel pump BEFORE the fuel pump and
behind the frame rail. The other is on top of the engine right in front of the carb. This is the one to watch as if you see it bubbling when car is running, chances are it is either running too hot, but also going to have air bubbles getting in line/carb. I do not know enough about the laws of combustability, however, know that it ain't good to have the fuel bubbling before it gets to carb either.
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Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Sick Gremlin - "gastric" problem?
CHarlie,
It definitly sounds like your getting vapor lock. Make sure you wrap (or move or both) the fuel line and NOT the headers with the heat wrap. If you wrap the headers they will rot out in no time!
My starter is high performance and spins the motor like a champ - hot or cold. Interesting theory about the gas line. In general, there seems to be a lot of heat under the hood. Perhaps some header tape would not be a bad idea.
Charlie
In a message dated 5/7/2006 9:34:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Terry.Atkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Is it slow to turn over or is it turning over and just won't start.
Terry
In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dennis jr Sinks <dsinks@...>
wrote:
>
> How is your fuel ran to the carb. Is it sheilded pretty good
from the headers?
> I had that same issue with My cj5 a few years back with the
exact same setup.
>
> I had to re-route my lines and wrap them with header wrap. It
fixed it but I couldnt tell ya why it worked fine for 2 years before
though....
>
> crbacsw@... wrote:
> Greetings to all!
> I tried to post this question yesterday but it never made it -
so here goes again.
> I have a 75 Gremlin w/304 - 40K, Hedman headers, Edelbrock
manifold and carb. No internal engine work.
> Starts cold no problem. Starts hot no problem if I do so within
5 to 10 minutes after shutting it down. However, if I let it sit 30
minutes or so, she is very hard starting. Edelbrock tech suggested
a "percolation" problem. So, I put a heat sink gasket between the
carb and manifold. This did nothing to solve the problem. Anyone
ever experience this before? I sure could use some help!
> Thanks, Charlie
>
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