I've heard that installation of an electric fuel pump will usually get rid of any possibilities of vapor lock. Anyone else know about this? Unless you're going to be in a 1-1/2 hour parade, I don't think I'd worry about it. I drove my '63 a/c car as a daily driver for almost 15 years (it has 197,000 miles on it now) and I've never once experience vapor lock. As a daily driver, I was caught in many stop and go situations on the interstate on the way into town. Ed
No, I haven't done that yet. I could not find where I put the old fuel filter. I think my dad may have moved it. So I'll have to ask him. First I'm going to try it with just a straight thru filter. I'll just put a bolt in the return line and clamp it down all the way, and then we'll see what happens. In other news I found out that the car has a huge vacuum leak. Working on getting that fixed, as well as checking the (recently replaced) points.
A big vacuum leak will cause bad hesitation like you describe and have nothing to do with the new fuel filter. ou: Fix that vacuum leak first, then start messing with other things. Jim
I blocked the return line, put on a straight thru filter, and fixed the vacuum leak. Everything sounded good. I didn't get an oppurtunity to run the car for very long, since I didn't have the fan or fan shroud on. I tested it for maybe 20 seconds when the thing threw a pulley from what was left of the fan. No harm done, though. I should be able to get the car running this week. The fan shroud is split into three pieces, so I'm going to have to repair that before any extensive testing. Long story short, I think we'll be all right.
I know, and that's if you can find one. I'm just going to take a crack at fixing it myself. The splits in it were pretty clean, so I think I'll be able to mend it, but if I get all that figured out, we'll see how well the car starts to run.
