Hot Flooding

Sounds like a hot soak start up problem to me. Hot soak is when you shut the engine off and all the gas boils out of the float bowl. You then have to crank the engine long enough to refill the float bowl. Usually a heat dissipater mounted between the carb and intake will remedy the situation. - Gary

and when the gas boils out of the float bowls, sometimes it ends up in the intake manifold...so the engine is flooded.

And keep in mind also that 90% of "carburator problems" are caused by the ignition system :)

I had this problem with my TA years ago......the float in the carb is stuck open....

Run the car a few minutes.....shut it off....remove air cleaner and look down the carb throat to see if it has gas trickling into it.

Let me know what turns up.........Stan

Also make sure the distributor has at least 9 volts going to it during cranking (HEI system)

I'M HOT FLOODED, CHECK IT AND SEE!! I GOT A FEVER OF A HUNDRED AND THREE, .......I'M HOT FLOODED, HOT FLOOD-ED!!!

Oh yeah, 1978, that was a good year for young poon.

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:54:58 -0700 (PDT), snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (F Fletch) puked:

When did young poon go out of style?

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