Date:         Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:13:01 -0800
Reply-To:     neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Was: Leaky ... fuel injector? Now: suck fuel/air through
              vaccum side of fuel regulator?
Comments: To: Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To:  <zlxjczyk.fsf@cs.indiana.edu>
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Last night I was picturing in my mind just how horrid it could be with
all that fluid in there and the PO trying to start it. Yikes! Yah who
knows what happened in there. Thanks for the heads up though.

With any luck nothing got bent or suffered from too much friction. If
it runs it runs. Someone gets a deal. If not, I'm parting it out then
it's scrap metal time for the engine block/heads.

Unless a rebuilder will give me core $$ even though I'm not buying an
engine from him. Ehhhh.... not likely!

Neil.

On 11/12/07, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM> writes:
>
> > There is a possibility that it is still a good engine despite that
> > it is full of gasoline in it. I think one of the injectors has its
> > core shot out and the engine has become a deep pit for receiving
> > constant flow of gas as soon as the fuel pump begins pumping. Save
> > the engine. Whatever the problem it may be it is not one in the
> > engine.
>
> If it hydrolocked with a liquid in the cylinder, you could have a bent
> rod.
>
> Allan
>


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Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia -
"Jaco"  (Bustorius)

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