, so I would check it out right away.
Carb help
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Carb help-vapor lock or something
I just got my car back on the road today. I cruised around for awhile (no hood) and stopped at a fiends house for a few minutes. When I started the car up all was fine until I hit the accelerator and gas came pouring out of the front vent tube on the carb flooding it. I started it back up and gave it some gas and raw gas shoots out of both vent tubes and onto the windshield. Any ideas what this is? It ran fine after this initial incident.
Last edited by 68sting; Jul 3, 2010 at 06:50 PM.
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I checked the float level when I got back home and they were fine at that point. Should I just drive it a little more and see if the crud gets out or do you recommend I take the bowls off and have a look. Thanks for the help.
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I just got my car back on the road today. I cruised around for awhile (no hood) and stopped at a fiends house for a few minutes. When I started the car up all was fine until I hit the accelerator and gas came pouring out of the front vent tube on the carb flooding it. I started it back up and gave it some gas and raw gas shoots out of both vent tubes and onto the windshield. Any ideas what this is? It ran fine after this initial incident.
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I put the hood on today and went for a spin. I'm getting an old problem that I never fixed. I'm having a vapor lock issue I believe. When it does this the carb appears to boil over. I run a Holly blue pump thats mounted in the back. Next up is the mechanical filter and then the regulator that has a pressure gage. My pressure will drop to 0 and you can hear the pump surging. It will stay at zero long after the car has been sitting. I switched pumps and regulators but same problem. Any ideas on this?
