Reply to "Heat Soak and Flooding"

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An isulated carb spacer is a greate idea. When I first go my car 27years ago, I had the same issue with hard starting during the summer in San Francisco. After a run, I tried to restart the car after a short rest. At one instance, the primary float stuck open and my engine flooded with fuel coming out of the vents as I tried to crank the engine over. After I rebuilt my carb, I did a test run then tried to restart after a short stop a rest stop off HWY280. Same hard starting problem like it's flooded. I openned the decklid to check what was going on and heard what sounded like percolating coming from the carb. I tried to touch the carb and it was too hot to touch. My friend said our engines don't have the benefit of having enough air rushing through to cool the top like front-engined cars. He suggested putting a heat sink or an insulated carb spacer. After I did that, I have not had this problem.

Good luck with your issue.

7/15/107:27 PM

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