<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Jim,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>My car does not have chokes, so we can put that one to bed. I do agree that it should clear out the fuel pump a lot quicker, but it definitely acts like fuel starvation. The only thing I can figure out is that the hot air of the motor rest under the hatch and heats the fuel pump. If it were a carb issue it would not start when hot.</span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I was thinking of doing the Mr Gasket 12S fuel pump and Summit SUM-890145 inertia switch. The fuel pump is a 4 to 7 lb model. The inertia switch looks like a copy of the Ford inertia switches used in the 90's. Let me know what you think.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Adam</span></div><h1 class="title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 4px 10px 8px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif;">SUM-890145</h1><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 8:31 AM, Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">On 22 Jan 2014 at 6:56,
Adam Douglass wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I have read that type 3 cars are prone to fuel pump vapor lock on hot<br clear="none">> restart. My car does this. It will start fine when hot, but once the<br clear="none">> carbs run out of fuel it will sputter and choke till the fuel pump<br clear="none">> clears itself of the vapor and pumps fuel. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">I'd expect the fuel pump to clear itself quite quickly. Is there any <br clear="none">possibility that what you are experiencing is that the electric <br clear="none">chokes are mis-adjusted and have closed a bit in the short time <br clear="none">they've cooled down? That might give the same symptoms.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> My thoughts were to remove the mechanical pump and go electric. I was<br clear="none">> thinking of putting in a low pressure fuel pump this weekend. Are<br clear="none">> there any other solutions? <br
clear="none"><br clear="none">I don't think most carbed Type 3s have this problem, but the solution <br clear="none">I would suggest would be to install one of those small electric fuel <br clear="none">pumps under the gas tank, up front. You can even leave the stock pump <br clear="none">in place if it's not causing other problems. They will run okay in <br clear="none">series without doubling the fuel pressure.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">BUT, for safety's sake, you should also install an impact switch in <br clear="none">the electrical feed to the new pump, to make sure that the pump won't <br clear="none">keep running after an accident. IIRC, those are available at NAPA as <br clear="none">Ford replacements for under $30. Mount it rigidly to the body, under <br clear="none">the dash, somewhere you can get to it fairly easily to reset it if <br clear="none">necessary.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br
clear="none">*******************************<br clear="none">Jim Adney, <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jadney@vwtype3.org" href="mailto:jadney@vwtype3.org">jadney@vwtype3.org</a><br clear="none">Madison, Wisconsin, USA<div class="yqt9410011326" id="yqtfd30826"><br clear="none">*******************************<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">VWType3.Org mailing list - <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:type3@vwtype3.org" href="mailto:type3@vwtype3.org">type3@vwtype3.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.vwtype3.org/listinfo.cgi/type3-vwtype3.org" target="_blank">http://lists.vwtype3.org/listinfo.cgi/type3-vwtype3.org</a><br clear="none">Contact <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org" href="mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org">gregm@vwtype3.org</a> if you need help with the list.<br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>