From: D O (dohe69@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat May 17 2003 - 16:17:58 PDT
Can you plumb in a combination vacuum/pressure gauge as close to the
injection pump as possible? I am not sure what readings would be normal
with this system which has an in tank pump as well as the low pressure pump
in the injection pump, but if you shut off the in tank pump and got into the
throttle, vacuum should not be more than a few inches?
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>Subject: Re: [MV] A challenging problem Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 15:38:20
>-0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi Noel, yes that's right, Terry's idea of a gravity
>fed pail would at least isolate the problem wouldn't
>it.
>
>I'm been tinkering with it again, but still no luck.
>I haven't been to the parts house yet to get an
>in-line check valve for the fuel tank line, but I'm
>thinking there may be more to it now.
>
>An air leak is one thing, but a restriction is another
>and a restriction might be giving me the same
>symptoms? Or perhaps a combination of the two, but an
>air leak and an obstruction seems pretty unlikely.
>
>Reason for saying it might be an obstruction is I'm
>just getting back from my first real test drive. Runs
>smooth enough. But, not much power, feels like I only
>have about 50% of the power I should have and thats
>why I think it has to be starving for fuel. This
>would go hand in hand with insufficient fuel on start
>up and causing it to die until I pressurize the line
>and force fuel up in there and the engine then helps
>pull it along.
>
>Time to break out one of my manuals and trace this
>fuel system down. As they say, when all else fails,
>read the directions!
>
>After that I will follow the fuel line inch by inch
>and see if anything is visibly wrong. Too bad we're
>not a tad closer. I would run over and see what I
>could do to help with your LARC in exchange for some
>time on the M35! lol Have you located those manuals
>yet?
>
>-Jack
>
>P.S. Thanks to all who have been providing tips,
>checking them all out too and sooner or later I'll get
>it right.
>
>
>
>--- noel shelley <noel@shelley1722.freeserve.co.uk>
>wrote:
> > Hi Jack its me again,
> > Terry `s idea is
> > agood start, run plastic
> > lines to a 5gallon can KEEP BOTH LINES IN FUEL
> > mounted as high as you can
> > and see what happens! If it starts up OK after
> > standing overnight or longer
> > then you know what the trouble is, Drain back.NOW
> > all you`ve got to do is
> > find where.
> > When a man falls out of an aircraft, its not the
> > fall that kills him, It`s
> > THE STOP AT THE BOTTOM.
> > poor sense of humour! thats me.
> >
> > NOEL
> >
> >
>
>--- noel shelley <noel@shelley1722.freeserve.co.uk>
>wrote:
> > Hi Jack its me again,
> > Terry `s idea is
> > agood start, run plastic
> > lines to a 5gallon can KEEP BOTH LINES IN FUEL
> > mounted as high as you can
> > and see what happens! If it starts up OK after
> > standing overnight or longer
> > then you know what the trouble is, Drain back.NOW
> > all you`ve got to do is
> > find where.
> > When a man falls out of an aircraft, its not the
> > fall that kills him, It`s
> > THE STOP AT THE BOTTOM.
> > poor sense of humour! thats me.
> >
> > NOEL
> >
> >
>
>
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