<VV> Fwd: Vapor lock

tom zimmermann s10birdman1966 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 15 03:20:06 EDT 2005


George emailed me this---am 'freshening ' his 80hp carbs,and plan to run battery ground to starter bolt,and add the heavy ground to gen/frame that's missing,along with one or two 12ga wires from right head to frame...he "owes me a cup of coffee",i guess !! Tom Z/acorns

GFrenzie at aol.com wrote:From: GFrenzie at aol.com
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:31:21 EDT
Subject: Vapor lock
To: s10birdman1966 at yahoo.com

I love it, love it love it.....ha ha ....I think we found the problem....tonight I drove out to the Log Cabin, probably about 6 miles....it appears to be more responsive when I use the accelerator....didn't really notice it the other day while driving home....I am begining to think about keeping those carbs on there instead of changing them ...how about it?...How much you want for the carbs?.....
 
After arriving at the Log Cabin, and shutting it off, I turned the key....started right up without even a "grunt"...turned it off...and turned the key once again...same thing...started right up....stayed there about 1 1/2 hours...headed for home, after arriving home..turned it off and turned the key ....again....it started right up...so it appears the loose ground was the culprit after all....when the generator got hot/warm it did something to the ground cable making it hard to start until it cooled off..
 
Now, I am not concerned about driving it any distance at all, as I was a few days ago...
Thanks for all your help in locating this problem...I really appreciated it...
George


		
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