In a message dated 7/13/2009 7:12:32 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, mfreem...@indy.rr.com writes:
Well I didn't make it, it vapor locked before I could get there and I couldn t get it re-started. Don't know about airplanes, but I have had experience with two separate cars in the past on which someone had installed an aluminum bodied electric fuel pump in the engine compartment, which would vapor lock when it got hot. Both of the owners regularly fixed the problem by whacking on the pump housing with a large wrench. One of them actually hung the wrench in a position such that when it vapor locked on him he could pull a string he had run into the drivers compartment from the wrench and cause it to bang against the pump breaking the vapor lock. It worked, but was kind of a mickey mouse fix. Moving both of the pump locations out of the engine compartment, and nearer to the gas tank so they were pushing the fuel more than pulling it solved the problem permanently on both vehicles. Todd Thelin "The older I get...The faster I was!" rdrace...@aol.com 912-596-8057 **************Summer concert season is here! Find your favorite artists on tour at TourTracker.com. (http://www.tourtracker.com/?ncid=emlcntusmusi00000006)
