Re: [T3] Fuel Issues - Overheating?

[Steven Ayres <comwest@att.net>]

<x-flowed>Jeff=> it wouldn't re-start until it got cooled off a bit.

Hot-start difficulties are not unusual, and not necessarily due to 
overheat.

If it were vapor lock, bear in mind that you'd have to boil out the 
carbs completely to prevent a start. That would be an awfully hot motor. 
If your phenolic insulators are in place on the manifolds, it pretty 
well can't happen. It's good practice to separate the fuel lines from 
the case to prevent a running vapor-lock problem, but it's quite rare.

This is more often related to voltage loss in hot electrical components. 
Go over your spark system completely; the plug, feed and condensor wires 
should be off the engine case, the plug insulators should be clean and 
uncracked, the coil should not be getting too hot (this is a common 
problem with Mexican blue coils). Recheck your timing, as precision 
really matters most when it's hot.

Steven Ayres, Prescott AZ
'66 KG1600

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