Fuel Fluke
Ok... thanks everyone.
I checked the oil by pulling the dip stick... feeling the oil... smelling the oil and it does not have gas in it.... smells like oil.
I really don't think the floats are getting sticky because it only does it when the motor hits 190* or higher. Of course I'm not ruling out completely because it could be vapor lock along with float trouble.
I took some more pictures of the fuel line showing exactly how it's ran so to shed more light on what might be going on. There is two places that are close to the headers... one at the cowl.... two at the fuel pump (rubber hose) that might be the problems.
I think I can fix the two spots... at the cowl I could wrap the line in some kind of heat protection and at the pump I install a 90* fitting and let the fuel line go toward the front of the car some more then turn and back into the 90* fitting at the pump. Getting it away from the header. There is a short piece of aluminum fuel line that is between the mechanical pump and the filter but it does not feel hot like it would be causing it. If I ran rubber hose from the pump to the filter would that be better?
For right now I'm pretending like I don't have a electric fuel pump on the car... I'm leaving it off and use it for back up. The car will run off of the mechanical pump anyways with a pressure of 7.5 I don't mind wrapping all of the aluminum line with heat protection IF is doesn't look tacky. I might too.
Ok... thanks everyone.
I checked the oil by pulling the dip stick... feeling the oil... smelling the oil and it does not have gas in it.... smells like oil.
I really don't think the floats are getting sticky because it only does it when the motor hits 190* or higher. Of course I'm not ruling out completely because it could be vapor lock along with float trouble.
I took some more pictures of the fuel line showing exactly how it's ran so to shed more light on what might be going on. There is two places that are close to the headers... one at the cowl.... two at the fuel pump (rubber hose) that might be the problems.
I think I can fix the two spots... at the cowl I could wrap the line in some kind of heat protection and at the pump I install a 90* fitting and let the fuel line go toward the front of the car some more then turn and back into the 90* fitting at the pump. Getting it away from the header. There is a short piece of aluminum fuel line that is between the mechanical pump and the filter but it does not feel hot like it would be causing it. If I ran rubber hose from the pump to the filter would that be better?
For right now I'm pretending like I don't have a electric fuel pump on the car... I'm leaving it off and use it for back up. The car will run off of the mechanical pump anyways with a pressure of 7.5 I don't mind wrapping all of the aluminum line with heat protection IF is doesn't look tacky. I might too.
