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| mate914 |
 Jul 20 2023, 04:22 PM
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Matt  Group: Members Posts: 757 Joined: 27-February 09 From: Eagles mere, PA Member No.: 10,102 Region Association: North East States 
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Letting sit over night. Two hours after floating in gas, floats sank and absorbed gas.
Matt The floats are cracked but still float. I was concerned as to what caused the engine fire. I was hoping to find something simple, I did not. Car sat for about two years before I acquired it. I will put pictures of both.   |
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mate914 3.2 carb engine fire running again Jul 20 2023, 04:22 PM
r_towle Sadly I have found quite a bit of water in modern ... Jul 20 2023, 08:14 PM
mate914 Do you think this is from modern fuels? The car di... Jul 21 2023, 05:02 AM r_towle I’m now going backwards with carbs.
Put a shutof... Jul 20 2023, 08:17 PM sixnotfour PMO is now owned by Empi,,sorry for your loss.. Jul 20 2023, 08:45 PM StarBear So glad you found the root cause, Matt, and that t... Jul 21 2023, 06:03 AM VaccaRabite If the carbs were rebuilt years ago, yeah its poss... Jul 21 2023, 06:04 AM r_towle So what I’m finding is the fuel at the gas stati... Jul 21 2023, 08:22 AM 73-914
So what I’m finding is the fuel at the gas stat... Jul 21 2023, 03:46 PM rfinegan It would be hard to say if the cracks in the float... Jul 21 2023, 08:56 AM Rob@EMPI Hi Matt, Sorry to hear about your fire. PMO Induct... Jul 21 2023, 09:04 AM mate914 Thanks Rob. I will be reaching out.
Matt
Hi M... Jul 21 2023, 10:11 AM Rob@EMPI also for reference PMO gaskets, diaphragms and sea... Jul 21 2023, 09:05 AM mlindner Rob, thats a great offer. Thanks for stepping up t... Jul 21 2023, 10:06 AM Root_Werks Zoinks!
At least you did find the smoking gun... Jul 21 2023, 10:15 AM 930cabman
Zoinks!
At least you did find the smoking gu... Jul 25 2023, 02:02 PM Cairo94507 @Rob @EMPI
Now that is a very nice offer. :beer2... Jul 21 2023, 03:55 PM mate914 I think the gentleman who owned this car before me... Jul 21 2023, 05:21 PM blabla914 sorry your car was damaged by a fire. Engine fires... Jul 21 2023, 05:43 PM mate914
sorry your car was damaged by a fire. Engine fire... Jul 21 2023, 07:16 PM porschetub
sorry your car was damaged by a fire. Engine fir... Jul 23 2023, 11:44 PM mate914 This matches what I saw. Both the fire starting an... Jul 24 2023, 04:58 AM rgalla9146 I'm not an engineer.
I do have to wonder th... Jul 24 2023, 05:23 AM nditiz1 As another member stated these floats are weber ID... Jul 24 2023, 05:28 AM blabla914
As another member stated these floats are weber I... Jul 24 2023, 05:40 AM blabla914 it may be the cracked floats that caused the fire.... Jul 24 2023, 05:33 AM nditiz1 I'm banking on something failed either a brass... Jul 24 2023, 05:51 AM VaccaRabite There are a couple failure modes for IDF style car... Jul 24 2023, 06:52 AM blabla914 Thought of something on the way to work. Here... Jul 24 2023, 08:27 AM mate914
Thought of something on the way to work. Here... Jul 24 2023, 10:15 AM nditiz1 They float. Cracks in the float doesn't matte... Jul 24 2023, 09:50 AM mate914
They float. Cracks in the float doesn't matt... Jul 24 2023, 03:23 PM TomE
They float. Cracks in the float doesn't matt... Jul 25 2023, 07:00 AM nditiz1 I'm not sure I'm following, but these ones... Jul 25 2023, 07:58 AM nditiz1 Since you have the carbs on a bench I would fill t... Jul 24 2023, 04:05 PM mate914
Since you have the carbs on a bench I would fill ... Jul 24 2023, 05:04 PM mate914
Ready to try again. Jul 24 2023, 05:11 PM JmuRiz :clap: good luck, hope it works out.
This whole ... Jul 24 2023, 06:57 PM nditiz1 Good to hear it.
For future reference- peirce man... Jul 24 2023, 06:59 PM Rob@EMPI
Letting sit over night. Two hours after floating ... Jul 25 2023, 09:07 AM mate914
Letting sit over night. Two hours after floating... Jul 25 2023, 10:12 AM mate914 One float dry the other soaked in gasoline two hou... Jul 25 2023, 03:56 PM nditiz1 But does it still float? Jul 25 2023, 04:38 PM TomE
But does it still float?
Yes it still floats but... Jul 25 2023, 05:11 PM blabla914 Interesting stuff.
While it's curious that on... Jul 28 2023, 12:34 PM mate914 That is my plan this weekend. Still waiting on par... Jul 28 2023, 01:25 PM Justinp71 @mate914 Scary situation, glad you put out the fi... Jul 28 2023, 04:51 PM mate914 The carburetor was on fire inside the manifold and... Jul 28 2023, 05:09 PM mate914 PMO tech update
Floats need to be under 12 grams... Jul 30 2023, 04:28 PM porschetub
PMO tech update
Floats need to be under 12 gram... Jul 30 2023, 07:21 PM porschetub
PMO tech update
Floats need to be under 12 gram... Jul 30 2023, 09:45 PM mate914
PMO tech update
Floats need to be under 12 gra... Jul 31 2023, 05:08 AM nditiz1 Set the pressure to 3.5.
Also, I have never weigh... Jul 31 2023, 07:20 AM porschetub
Set the pressure to 3.5
:agree: lowered fuel p... Aug 5 2023, 04:58 PM mate914
Set the pressure to 3.5
:agree: lowered fuel ... Aug 5 2023, 05:27 PM TomE Big question with the float now is why did it crac... Jul 31 2023, 07:37 AM mate914 It runs. Have to rewire fuel pump due to removing ... Aug 6 2023, 12:46 PM mate914
This is it with car running. Why does it read so... Aug 6 2023, 01:18 PM porschetub
This is it with car running. Why does it read s... Aug 6 2023, 11:17 PM mate914
This is it with car running. Why does it read ... Aug 7 2023, 04:45 AM mate914
Right side.
Fire side/left side/drivers sideâ€... Aug 6 2023, 01:20 PM JmuRiz Semi on-topic...had a rough running car that I bar... Aug 15 2023, 04:43 PM mate914 Sounds like dizzy,cap/rotor, then carb. I got Konk... Aug 15 2023, 06:36 PM nditiz1 So we never found out why it flamed in the first p... Aug 15 2023, 06:37 PM mate914 yes, the float. The float was out of spec.
Matt
... Aug 16 2023, 04:57 AM JmuRiz Interesting, never had a spark issue before…migh... Aug 15 2023, 06:40 PM Dion Nice work Matt Aug 16 2023, 07:40 AM  |
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