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alexiskai · 03-31-2024, 10:10 AM

I'm helping someone sell a Tudor that's been in storage for a few years. I want to show in the listing that the car will run. But I'm pretty sure the carb is gummed up, and there may be rust in the tank. I want to rig a temp fuel system just to confirm that it will run once the carb is fixed.

I have a working carb I can attach temporarily. I want to use a simple gravity-feed system with a jug and a flexible hose to feed the carb. The problem: I've never done this and I don't know how.

Can someone explain to me how this is done? Like, what kind of connectors do I need? What kind of hose do I need? What kind of container do I need? The whole thing is a mystery.

Ordsgt · 03-31-2024, 10:17 AM

I had to do a similar rig not to long ago. Rigged up a plastic gas mower fuel tank and ran a rubber hose with hose clamps onto the gas line to the carb, worked fine

alexiskai · 03-31-2024, 11:20 AM

OK, so you take the fuel line off the firewall-mounted filter and then you clamp the flexible hose to that on one end. Then you use a small tank or even a gas can on the other end. Seems reasonable. Thank you.

nkaminar · 03-31-2024, 01:19 PM

Before you do that, try to clean out the line from the tank and see if it will flow. You can dump about a gallon of gasoline with some tank cleaner in the tank, then shake the car to help clean it out. Toluene is a good cleaner.

1crosscut · 03-31-2024, 06:59 PM

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Also I've found that in my experience that Model A's don't like it when a fuel line has a dip in it making the fuel run uphill to the carburetor. When hooking up a temporary tank I make sure the fuel line runs down hill all the way to the carburetor.

I have a steel fuel line that I cut off about four inches from the carburetor that I use to attach a flexible hose to and run that to my temporary tank.

03-31-2024, 10:10 AM	#1
alexiskai Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Mebane NC Posts: 2,361	How to rig temp fuel delivery I'm helping someone sell a Tudor that's been in storage for a few years. I want to show in the listing that the car will run. But I'm pretty sure the carb is gummed up, and there may be rust in the tank. I want to rig a temp fuel system just to confirm that it will run once the carb is fixed. I have a working carb I can attach temporarily. I want to use a simple gravity-feed system with a jug and a flexible hose to feed the carb. The problem: I've never done this and I don't know how. Can someone explain to me how this is done? Like, what kind of connectors do I need? What kind of hose do I need? What kind of container do I need? The whole thing is a mystery.

03-31-2024, 10:17 AM	#2
Ordsgt Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: Yorktown Virginia Posts: 183	Re: How to rig temp fuel delivery I had to do a similar rig not to long ago. Rigged up a plastic gas mower fuel tank and ran a rubber hose with hose clamps onto the gas line to the carb, worked fine

03-31-2024, 11:20 AM	#3
alexiskai Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Mebane NC Posts: 2,361	Re: How to rig temp fuel delivery OK, so you take the fuel line off the firewall-mounted filter and then you clamp the flexible hose to that on one end. Then you use a small tank or even a gas can on the other end. Seems reasonable. Thank you.

03-31-2024, 01:19 PM	#4
nkaminar Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Western North Carolina Posts: 3,910	Re: How to rig temp fuel delivery Before you do that, try to clean out the line from the tank and see if it will flow. You can dump about a gallon of gasoline with some tank cleaner in the tank, then shake the car to help clean it out. Toluene is a good cleaner. __________________ A is for apple, green as the sky. Step on the gas, for tomorrow I die. Forget the brakes, they really don't work. The clutch always sticks, and starts with a jerk. My car grows red hair, and flies through the air. Driving's a blast, a blast from the past.

03-31-2024, 06:59 PM	#5
1crosscut Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Posts: 1,912	Re: How to rig temp fuel delivery Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) Also I've found that in my experience that Model A's don't like it when a fuel line has a dip in it making the fuel run uphill to the carburetor. When hooking up a temporary tank I make sure the fuel line runs down hill all the way to the carburetor. I have a steel fuel line that I cut off about four inches from the carburetor that I use to attach a flexible hose to and run that to my temporary tank. __________________ Dave / Lincoln Nebraska