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Re: [GMCnet] Was that vapor lock? [message #204562] Sat, 13 April 2013 16:15
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No problems so far, but.......Send Pix, please, Mike.



Remember, "He who drinks the most beer and has the biggest bladder, and
can tell which way the wind is blowing, usually wins the contest,
regardless of correctness of thought.

RonC

On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:57:16 -0500 Michael Morton <memorton@charter.net>
writes:
>
>
> Yep sounds like vapor lock. I wrote on here, about a year ago, how I
> felt that I had cured my vapor lock problems with a simple mod that
> cost less than 25 dollars. Since then I have made several trips
> including trips to Florida in hot weather and have had no indication
> of vapor lock. Although I haven't been in extremely hot weather, ie
> above 100 or so, the engine hasn't died, no stumbling, no hesitation
> or anything. When I first told about the mod and how I felt it had
> cured my vapor lock problem, I was blasted by some of the people on
> this forum. I was told it would never work, it was too complicated,
> it would need a calibrated orifice, the carb would starve for fuel,
> etc. Now, after more than a year of driving my coach, I am more
> convinced that it has cured my vapor lock problems. I had previously
> installed an electric fuel pump to fight the vapor lock, it didn't
> cure it and now I just use the electric fuel pump to prime or fill
> the carb when it has been sitting for a while
> to make it start easier. If anyone is interested, send me a
> private email and I will send what I did with pictures. I just don't
> feel like getting ridiculed on here again, and I don't feel like
> getting in pissing match with some of the experts on here.
>
> Mike Morton
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