From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Wed May 19 2004 - 22:25:16 PDT
I had a Dodge car with a 360 engine with thermo-quad carb that did that. The
sickening sound I remember was the fire engine sirens coming to extinguish
the totally-involved engine compartment. The gas flowed out the air cleaner
and got ignited on the exhaust manifolds. I saved the two rear tires and not
much else.
apb
----- Original Message -----
From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] M151A2 fuel in crankcase
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "noel shelley" <noel@shelley1722.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] M151A2 fuel in crankcase
>
>
> > Hi All ,
> > The only other way is down the bores, due to a very over
rich
> > mixture , ie the choke out for FAR to long or the choke stuck in period
.
> Is
> > the fuel consumption very poor , is there an internal leak in the carb ?
> > Are the plugs sooty or black ? Is there an ignition fault thats leaving
> > unburnt fuel ?
> > More clues = more answers .
>
> Could be a stuck float and raw gas just blowing down into the intake
> manifold somehow (bad carb gasket between top and bottom half?) My M37
did
> that for way too long. Another irritating thing my 151 did was when I
left
> if for long periods of time, by some process known only unto the Physics
> Gods, the carb would keep percolating raw gas into my intake manifold and
> then into the combustion chambers, past the rings, and on into the oil.
Not
> fun. The resulting overly dry starts sounded...sickening.
>
>
>
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