[Public-List] A4 Engine puzzler

[Gordon Laco]

I thought of that... Tank 2 is a new PVC tank.


On 18/08/13 2:21 PM, "Glenn" <brooks.glenn at comcast.net> wrote:

> Sounds like the pickup tube in your second tank has corroded through, causing
> a break in the fuel suction. 

Glenn B
dolce 318

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On Aug
> 18, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

> Hi Gang,
>
> 
> I hope you¹re all out sailing.... I stole Friday afternoon and yesterday
> to
> do a quick overnighter up the coast.  Had a wonderful trip.
> 
> This
> afternoon I¹ve been making a determined assault on the annoying issue
>
> SURPRISE¹s engine has;  namely it¹s dislike of running while the fuel
>
> selector is set to Tank 2.
> 
> It runs fine on Tank 1, but when the selector
> is set to 2 it runs for only a
> few minutes then cuts out and won¹t restart.
> When I put the selector back
> to Tank 1, it starts again after a lot of
> cranking...but at first only with
> the choke on (it gets over that
> quickly).
> 
> When it stalls while running on tank 2, here¹s fuel in the fuel
> filter, so I
> think it¹s getting gas.   If the carb were getting blocked, it
> wouldn¹t
> start again on either tank without a carb cleaning job, but it
> doesn¹t need
> that.
> 
> When the problem first manifested, it was stalling
> on either tank, but after
> I¹d followed Don Moyer¹s advice and retightened
> all fuel line hose clamps,
> the problem was resolved with regard to 1, but
> the issue still exists with
> 2.
> 
> It¹s occurred to me that there could be
> water in the fuel in 2; so I¹ve been
> putting fuel line antifreeze in to
> absorb it.... But it occurs to me that if
> contaminated fuel were the issue,
> I¹d have to clean the carb before it would
> run again and so long as I switch
> to 2 that doesn¹t happen.
> 
> The weird thing is it ran quite happily on
> either for many years before this
> started happening last season.
> 
> Does
> anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Gord #426 Surprise
>
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