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There was a mention of vapor lock in the discussion of carb Ice and not being one to let possible errors remain on record in our wonderful collection of information here:
Can you get vapor lock in a gravity feed fuel system? I don't think so. Vapor lock is a failure common to systems with fuel pumps where the pump winds up trying to pump gas vapor, which doesn't work very well.
With a gravity feed system the bubbles would just go back up the fuel line and the liquid would go to the bottom where the carb is--end of problem.
Of course you can get a boiling carb, but that results in flooding, not starvation.
It's a slow morning here, just drinking my coffee, waiting to see how much it rains before I go put my new strut clamps on.
Darryl
Can you get vapor lock in a gravity feed fuel system? I don't think so. Vapor lock is a failure common to systems with fuel pumps where the pump winds up trying to pump gas vapor, which doesn't work very well.
With a gravity feed system the bubbles would just go back up the fuel line and the liquid would go to the bottom where the carb is--end of problem.
Of course you can get a boiling carb, but that results in flooding, not starvation.
It's a slow morning here, just drinking my coffee, waiting to see how much it rains before I go put my new strut clamps on.
Darryl