Carb. Fuel Loss When Not Used

[John Annie]

Mike,
Jegs.com has them. Try this link to the item. It's called an Alcohol Primer Bottle - $11.99 plus handling.

http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/store...tegoryId=89559

John

[mrud]

Thanks John,
I ordered one today.
Regards,
Mike

[wtm442]

Something is leaking. Turn on the ignition. Slowly press the accelerator pedal to the floor and release. The gas from the accelerator pump is enough to start the car. I have gone 4 months without starting my Cobra, and it starts up immediately.

Fix the leak(s). Squirting gas in a carb is dangerous! At least using a dropper and putting it into the bowl vent is safer, but the gas in the accelerator pump should not evaporate in 3 weeks. No way!

[Dennis Kelley]

GAsoline evaporates in high temps. Two to three weeks doesn't seem like that long of a time, but how hot is it in your garage. Even if your floats are low there should still be a shot in the accelerator pump. I had a truck that did the same thing and it was a bad diaphram in the fuel pump. I believe you has a bad pump thereby causing fuel to flow back instead of forward.

Later

dennis