[FC] Hard starting

[J R Read_HML]

I LIKE your thinking!
Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron" <ronh at owt.com>
To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>; <steven at sashimi.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [FC] Hard starting


> The advantage of the stock pump is that when the engine cranks until the
> bowels are full, the engine has pressurized oil in all of the bearings 
> when
> it starts.  The electric pump starts an almost dry engine which is OK if
> that's what you want.
> RonH
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <RoboMan91324 at aol.com>
> To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>; <steven at sashimi.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 6:44 PM
> Subject: [FC] Hard starting
>
>
>>
>> Steve,
>>
>> It is almost certainly that the fuel is evaporating from your  carbs in
>> the 3
>> weeks the Rampside is dormant.  Pumping the accelerator  actuates the
>> accelerator pump in the carb itself.  If there is no gas in  the carb, it
>> does
>> nothing.  There is no fuel for the accelerator pump to  pump until the
>> fuel pump
>> delivers fuel to the carb to replace what has  evaporated.
>>
>> Yes, an electric fuel pump would solve the problem if you let  it run for
>> a
>> minute before cranking the starter.  There may be other ways  to slow the
>> evaporation of the fuel from the carbs but eventually the fuel will
>> evaporate.
>>
>> Doc
>> '60 Corvette; '61 Rampside; '62 Rampside; '64 Spyder; '65  Greenbrier; 
>> '66
>> Corsa turbo coupe; '67 Nova SS; '68 Camaro ragtop
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> In a message dated 7/6/2008 9:00:34 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>> corvanatics-request at corvair.org writes:
>>
>> Message:  2
>> Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:38:53 -0400
>> From: "Steven"  <steven at sashimi.org>
>> Subject: [FC] Hard starting
>> To:  <corvanatics at corvair.org>
>> Message-ID:  <002501c8dec5$fe8f31e0$0501a8c0 at D9QR3PB1>
>> Content-Type:  text/plain;    charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> Twice now since I've  owned my Rampside, a little more than a year now, I
>> have had difficulty  starting.  Normally it starts right up.  Both times 
>> I
>> had
>> the  difficulty it was after about three weeks of not starting the truck.
>> It
>> cranks fine.  It's as if it's not getting any gas even though there's gas
>> in
>> the tank.  Both times I had to pour some gas into the carbs and after
>> doing
>> that it starts.  Once started it runs fine and I have no more  problems
>> starting
>> that day, the next, or even after going a week or so not  starting it.
>>
>> I can understand that the gas in the carb  might evaporate over two or
>> three
>> weeks but I'd think that pumping the  accelerator and cranking it would
>> eventually get the gas pumping to the carbs.
>>
>> What causes this problem and is there anything short of an electric  fuel
>> pump to fix it (other than doing what I'm doing or starting the engine
>> every
>> week)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve Brown
>>
>> Media, PA
>>
>> '62  Rampside
>>
>>
>>
>>
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