Re: Overheating '67

["Bill Niles" <beel@avicom.net>]

> It has been my experience, hoo boy, that vapour lock is a load of
> codswallop.  It is a fictitious condition dreamed up by incompetent
> mechanics at the dawn of the automotive era as a placebo for a condition
> they couldn't explain.
> 

DOH!

I feel like I've just fallen for some "old trick".

It was a long time ago and I was a little kid. Thinking about it, it's the
only time I ever actually saw someone diagnose a "vapor lock" problem.

Oh well, not the first time I was duped.

Bill



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> From: James MacNaughton <JMac@uglyduckling.com>
> To: type3@vwtype3.org
> Subject: RE: Overheating '67
> Date: Friday, April 16, 1999 6:24 PM
> 
> It has been my experience, hoo boy, that vapour lock is a load of
> codswallop.  It is a fictitious condition dreamed up by incompetent
> mechanics at the dawn of the automotive era as a placebo for a condition
> they couldn't explain.
> 
> Vapour lock; the condition when the fuel spuriously gets so hot that it
> vapourises, either in the fuel line, or the float bowls themselves.  The
> theory works, but I have sincere doubts that gas that had vapourised
> wouldn't go ka-blooey anyway.
> 
> The idea behind the 'remedy' is to cool the gas line.  One is supposed to
> wrap tin-foil around the feed line (and on old American cars these are
> primarily metal, with flexible hose only at the joints), and pinning it
in
> place with clothes pins.  The importance of them being spring-clips comes
> from a time, gone since the 40's, when clothes pins were made of
potmetal;
> effecting a 'radiator,' cooling the fuel (and, consequently if you have
> metal clips, you don't need tin-foil).
> 
> I suggest that you listen to a person that is a fuel-engineer for an
> absolute, but vapour lock in my experience is fictitious.  My father (a
> mechanic of 40 years on cars and planes) scoffs at the mention of the
> phrase, claiming he'd never seen a case of vapourÀ<éat couldn't be
> cured by fixing the real problem.  But my dad's more opinionated even
than
> I.
> 
> James 'Sand In The Face' MacNaughton  -- Did I laugh!
> 
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