fuel consumption idleing?

[FrankWest]

Originally Posted by tbirdtbird

why again do you need to know this

Excuse me!!!!
I recently started my car and left it ideling for 1 hr and then another 1 hr.
And then I can;t restart.
Just wanted to see if I ran out of gas!!!!
Excuse me for asking!
Because if my gas line now has air in it...I will have to inject gasin the line.

[C26Pinelake]

Originally Posted by FrankWest

Excuse me!!!!
I recently started my car and left it ideling for 1 hr and then another 1 hr.
And then I can;t restart.y
Just wanted to see if I ran out of gas!!!!
Excuse me for asking!
Because if my gas line now has air in it...I will have to inject gasin the line.

What do you mean you will inject gas into the line ? I have never heard of this procedure.
Wayne

[Marshall57]

Originally Posted by FrankWest

Excuse me!!!!
Excuse me for asking!
Because if my gas line now has air in it...I will have to inject gas in the line.

Please excuse the teasing; really these are great bunch of guy, and even a lady or two.
The fuel consumption at idle has not been important enough to check for most of us.
If you ran your Model A at idle for two hours there could be problems from a bad adjustment in your fuel/air mixture. From the factory a car could idle for a long time with no problems but there is little chance that the settings are the same now. There might be no problems (I don't know your car) but a rich setting could have added a layer of soot on the plugs in that amount of time making it hard to start.

The problem of an empty tank is another issue that can be solved and if you dip you tank (use a clean stick to test the level) you will see if it is empty, or if you think your fuel line is blocked in any way, you can disconnect it at any connection where rubber fuel line has been added (at a add on fuel filter etc.) or at the carburetor if you have a completely stock setup, when you turn the petcock under the tank you should see a full stream of fuel.

The fuel system on a Model A is gravity fed and will not require any priming or special tricks to get the fuel to the carburetor, just turn on the petcock under the tank and there should be no other blockages if you find blockages it is usually between the bottom of the tank to the carburetor.

I am writing to you believing we are talking about a model A, if not many other things could come into play.

[George Miller]

Originally Posted by FrankWest

Excuse me!!!!
I recently started my car and left it ideling for 1 hr and then another 1 hr.
And then I can;t restart.
Just wanted to see if I ran out of gas!!!!
Excuse me for asking!
Because if my gas line now has air in it...I will have to inject gasin the line.

Why not take the gas cap off and put a stick in there and see if you have gas. Or put some gas in the tank and see if it starts.

There really is not a good answer to your question. It depends on a lot of things. How fast the ideal, where the spark is set, how you have the carb set, what kind of shape your engine is in,If you have the 10 percent crap gas, the list goes on.