<VV> help - flooding

[corvairduval at cox.net]

Bill is correct, a hot spark will fire a rich mixture, but plugs that are
wet will short the voltage to ground before spark potential can be reached.
Take a plug out (or several) and see if they are wet or black. Clean it,
attach the spark plug wire, lay the plug against something so it grounds,
but will not get caught up in belt or linkages. Have someone crank will you
look for a blue spark. Yellow weak spark is not good.

IF your needles are stuck open, you can have a flooding condition. Check
that fuel is not just flowing into the venturi when you are cranking. Look
from a distance. Do not use flames or incandescent light up close. A
backfire can cause you to have no eyebrows or hearing for a while. And a
non-starting car is prime for a backfire, trust me!

If a carb catches on fire from a backfire, keep cranking until the fire
goes out, hopefully.... use common sense.

Frank DuVal

Original Message:
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From: Chris & Bill Strickland lechevrier at earthlink.net
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:41:28 -0700
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> help - flooding


"Flooding" as it is called is way over rated as a cause for an engine 
not to start -- mostly, it means that you don't have enough spark to 
fire a dense air fuel mixture or the plugs are bad. An accelerator pedal 
held on the floor with several seconds of cranking with a good battery 
will clear the combustion chambers of  of any supposed excess fuel.

Meaning -- check your ignition system for spark -- if you have it at the 
coil, check for it again at the end of a spark plug wire.   A timing 
light can be useful here as a spark check tool.

Bill Strickland


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