swc@cbscc.UUCP (Scott W. Collins) (09/26/85)
~ My '78 Arrow GT has flooding trouble only when the engine is warm/hot and has been sitting more than a few minutes and less than it takes to make it cold. A friend with the same car had the same trouble and found that his float had been made porous and heavy by the alcohol additives in unleaded gases. MY float isn't spongy, nor does it seem to be porous. The car is tuned up (or so I think), so I am at a bit of a loss. At any rate, anybody else have knowledge or experience with such a float problem in any kind of car?? Scott W. Collins ihnp4!cbscc!swc
gvcormack@watmum.UUCP (Gordon V. Cormack) (09/27/85)
> My '78 Arrow GT has flooding trouble only when the engine > is warm/hot and has been sitting more than a few minutes > and less than it takes to make it cold. A friend with At the risk of stating the obvious, this is almost always a symptom of a faulty automatic choke (it should be wide open when the engine is warm -- even while starting), or of a clogged air filter.
hakanson@orstcs.UUCP (hakanson) (10/05/85)
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Regarding the possibly-soaked float in the Plymouth Arrow: Yes,
it is possible for your float to sink. It happened to the float
on my '80 Colt (another Mitsubishi animal), causing the same
symptoms of rich-running, barely-idling, gas-guzzling behavior.
And I never burned much gas with alcohol in it (as far as I can
be sure from only buying Union and Chevron gas).
The old float looked fine (it's a black plastic foam of some
kind) with no holes, but it was definitely heavier. I had
finally ruled out everything else, and suspected the cause when
I saw thru the sight-glass on the side of the carburetor that
the thing was flooding. Verifying that the needle valve was
functioning convinced me to put in a new float, and that cured
the problem completely.
PS: For all you folks who've been missing my long articles
about my car, I'll bring you up to date: 83K & still healthy.
It is time for the first new set of brake pads, though....
Marion Hakanson CSnet: hakanson%oregon-state@csnet-relay
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