Yup broke down....., Could this happen? Options

[oldschool]

Last sunday I drove my car to church/work it was about 100 degrees as I was driving on the fwy it started to lose power (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) , I pulled over and sure enough it would not start. It felt like vapor lock...
Could this happen while I'm driving????
after a bit it fired right up.

[76-914]

I have vapor locked so many times I just expect it in hot weather. Yeah, I'm to lazy to move the pump up front.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif) You've been saying that since God was a little boy.

One of the very few things that he wrote that I disagree with. Vapor lock is real. It happened on a regular basis on my 1955 Chevy. A wooden clothes pin on the fuel line solved the problem. It's real on the 914 too. My 1.7 would just die till it cooled down a bit. I was afraid to drive when it was over 95°, and that's a lot around here. Carried a water gun to squirt the pump and cool it down. I moved the pump to the front trunk and it never happened again in 30 years.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) I was born about 200 miles south of you and will vouch for vapor lock. And, I used to do the the same clothes pin trick on my 283, '56. As far as the Cap'n, may he rest in peace, I believe he never saw a vapor lock issue; ever! But then again he probably never saw a water pipe freeze. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) We are in California after all. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Besides, Porsche knew vapor lock was real enough to address the matter. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) Yet every year, just about now, the debate emerges from it's hibernation.

"Wait a second on the fuel lines; didn't the factory use the same nylon lines AFTER moving the pump up front."


No. The late cars used a different type of fuel lines rated for the pressure. Early cars had a white pvc type tubing. 75/76 had the black vinyl.

Curt, mine were clear. Well, brown, tan and opaque. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)