[AT] fuel system question

[charlie hill]

Ralph what you said makes sense that the up draft would only flood the carb 
it's self and drain out but that is not always the case.
I've seen some of my tractors get flooded so bad that I had to pull the 
spark plugs and spin the engine over to blow the gas out
of the cylinders.  I don't know why,  I guess once the float valve sticks 
and they start to flood the vacuum of the engine spinning over sucks the 
fuel
into the intake and up into the cylinders.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 11:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [AT] fuel system question

On 1/19/2013 8:33 PM, Bill Brueck wrote:
> Nor a Model T Ford.
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> Bill Brueck
>     Pine Island, MN USA
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of David Myers
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 8:19 PM
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> Wikipedia apparently hasn't owned an IH tractor. ;-) David
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I'm guessing they meant you couldn't flood the crankcase with gas if the
float stuck open on an updraft carb. Certainly I can flood the carb on
my gas tractors with updraft but it will just run out the overflow hole
on the bottom of the carb. and not into the engine.

Ralph in Sask.

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