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Re: [Tigers] "POS" carb

To: Steve Laifman <slaifman@socal.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] "POS" carb
From: Allan Ballard <allanballard@att.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:35:48 -0400
Fuel pump meaning pumping too much fuel?


On Jul 16, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Steve Laifman wrote:

> Allan,
>
> Do you think, maybe, that it is the SU fuel pump causing your symptoms?
>
> If the ignition were cutting out, my father's solution to everything
electrical was "it must be a loose wire"
>
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>
> Steve
>
> Steve Laifman
> Editor
> http://TigersUnited.com
>
>
> Allan Ballard wrote:
>>
>> I m sorting my stock  MK1a Tiger, trying to get it back on the streets
after ~
>> 3 decades of storage in a barn.
>>
>> Current focus is on carburation.
>>
>> It has a remanufactured Holly to replace a worn-out Motorcraft 2-bbl.
>>
>> Recently it was running pretty good but after I parked it to eat supper at
a
>> restaurant recently, upon return to the car it would not start. It
>> looked flooded; I looked down the throat and saw aboutS a half inch of
bubbly
>> gas in the
>> bottom of the carb.
>>
>> Subsequently shop guys replaced the choke spring mechanism, pronounced the
>> carb to be  cured but 6 miles later in Atlanta traffic it
>> died with the same symptoms.  It acted as it was out of gas then died and
>> would not re-start.
>>
>> I pushed it to the side of the road, popped the hood and looked down the
>> carb--another a pool of bubbly gas down there
>> and no way it would start.
>>
>> About 90 minutes later the tow truck arrived and the Sunbeam ranked so I
drove
>> it onto the flatbed truck.
>>
>> Does this make any sense to any one?
>>
>> Is there any way the coil could overheat and cause this--or do I have a
POS
>> carb?
>>
>> Allan
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