Re: Gasoline in the oil

Jerome Yuzyk (jerome(at)supernet.ab.ca)
Sat, 19 Dec 1998 10:04:41 -0700

In article <000201be2afd$ff597da0$eae86ed1(at)rufous>, "K. Patrick Wheeler" <pwheeler(at)ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Sorry, I was a bit unclear, the new diaphragm was unable to pump enough
> gasoline into the carbs and the engine died on a slight hill. Rather than
> try and find what was wrong with the rebuild, we went for the electric.
> Since the rebuild, I do not believe that I got any gas in the block,
> although it hardly ran enough to have gotten much in if it did leak. We did
> not order a kit from SS, we were using parts-house supplies, perhaps that is
> the way I should go about recovering my mechanical pump (and I'll be careful
> with the wire brush :-).

Actually, before finding the hole, my car used to run fine and then just sputter and stop. I used to think it was something in the line, and I had a big syringe and hose to blow back down the line. Then I decided to clean the bowl well, because there was stuff jammed into the corners that I thought was contributing. When one corner's accumulation popped away as a solid piece, I saw the real problem: the hardened accumulation was acting as a diaphram itself, and as it weakened, tended to let the pump drive gas back into the bowl. 

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