Y'all are makin' me lazy.........

[Charles]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Got a phone call last night, fuel pump was back ordered but should be here by the weekend - oh joy, anyone need hay for their animals?

Any way you could strap a can of gas on the hood and feed the carb via gravity?

A crude fix, but it might allow you to knock down the ol' weedpatch before it gets out of hand.

Chas

[merrylander]

Nah, I'll just hire it out this time.

[Combwork]

[QUOTE=Charles;31195]Any way you could strap a can of gas on the hood and feed the carb via gravity?

Beverly Hillbillies meet The Munsters. That is something I'd like to see; from a distance...................

[Sandy G]

Still want to strap a JATO unit on the top of my '69 Lincoln sedan & see if I can get that old beast airborne... We ain't got any rock cliff st crash it into, so I oughta be alrite, unlike the guy that tried it w/a '66 Impala...(grin)

[merrylander]

Well she is running fine now, t'was the damned suction tube in the gas tank, was all split and cracked. Part that still puzzles me is that when I blew into the hose ahead of the filter I would hear bubbles in the tank and the resulting pressure was enough to make gas come out of the hose. Maybe after 12 years I will replace all the fuel lines.

[merrylander]

[QUOTE=Combwork;31671]

Originally Posted by Charles

Any way you could strap a can of gas on the hood and feed the carb via gravity?

Beverly Hillbillies meet The Munsters. That is something I'd like to see; from a distance...................

I used to work with a guy who believed you could get better gas mileage if the gasoline was better vaporized. So he ran a coil of copper tubing from the cooling system to a bowl he had mounted above the carb. The idea was that as soon as the engine reached operating temperature he would switch the fuel supply from the carb to the bowl. Oh yeah!

[Charles]

[QUOTE=Combwork;31671]

Originally Posted by Charles

Any way you could strap a can of gas on the hood and feed the carb via gravity?

Beverly Hillbillies meet The Munsters. That is something I'd like to see; from a distance...................

It'd be a hoot!!!

Guaranteed to make ya choke on yer blood pudding!!!

Chas

[Charles]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Well she is running fine now, t'was the damned suction tube in the gas tank, was all split and cracked. Part that still puzzles me is that when I blew into the hose ahead of the filter I would hear bubbles in the tank and the resulting pressure was enough to make gas come out of the hose. Maybe after 12 years I will replace all the fuel lines.

Ethanol is rough on fuel lines. Blew one on my old Dodge a couple of years ago. Went through $50 worth of gas in 1 1/2 miles.

Also left a trail on the pavement that was still visible two weeks later.

Chas

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Still want to strap a JATO unit on the top of my '69 Lincoln sedan & see if I can get that old beast airborne... We ain't got any rock cliff st crash it into, so I oughta be alrite, unlike the guy that tried it w/a '66 Impala...(grin)

I've been looking for that story for YEARS, iirc it was in Car and Driver? Any idea where I can find it, perhaps post it ?

Pete

[JJIII]

TV show Mythbusters tried it. You can search YOUTUBE for that.