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mike657894 · 01-28-2016, 12:24 PM

I should have said this before but it just came back into my mind. A guy had the luck of his 80s chevy one ton stalled out in front of my dads cabin while i was working in the yard. i knew when i heard the sound . he was out of gas they seem to get a certain sound when out of fuel. we get some gas back in and it still wont go. It was a JUNK fuel pump on top of running out of gas. we got the gas back in but the pump being a cheap autozone electric. would pump fuel but didnt have the power to pump the air out of the line from the tank to the carb. I had to manuely help the fuel up the line. moral of the story and in caps so its easy to pick out of the book im writing here: CHECK THAT YOUR FUEL PUMP IS IN GOOD WORKING ORDER. ALL THIS COULD HAVE BEEN CAUSED FROM A LOW QUALITY PUMP BEING WORE OUT. it also may have been corn gas that wore his pump out.

01-28-2016, 12:24 PM	#17
mike657894 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Bay City Michigan Posts: 1,050	Re: How do you stop vapor lock? I should have said this before but it just came back into my mind. A guy had the luck of his 80s chevy one ton stalled out in front of my dads cabin while i was working in the yard. i knew when i heard the sound . he was out of gas they seem to get a certain sound when out of fuel. we get some gas back in and it still wont go. It was a JUNK fuel pump on top of running out of gas. we got the gas back in but the pump being a cheap autozone electric. would pump fuel but didnt have the power to pump the air out of the line from the tank to the carb. I had to manuely help the fuel up the line. moral of the story and in caps so its easy to pick out of the book im writing here: CHECK THAT YOUR FUEL PUMP IS IN GOOD WORKING ORDER. ALL THIS COULD HAVE BEEN CAUSED FROM A LOW QUALITY PUMP BEING WORE OUT. it also may have been corn gas that wore his pump out.