Steel cowboy
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« Reply #40 on: August 14, 2023, 05:48:16 AM » |
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My TJ suffers from vapor lock too. It’s fuel injected but if it sits after a 10 drive it starts and runs rough with hesitation. Unless I can park it in the shade. I might give Insulation on the fuel line a try.
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« Reply #41 on: August 14, 2023, 10:50:12 AM » |
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My TJ suffers from vapor lock too. It’s fuel injected but if it sits after a 10 drive it starts and runs rough with hesitation. Unless I can park it in the shade. I might give Insulation on the fuel line a try.
My Austin Healey is FI and the non metallic spacer under the throttle body made a significant difference. I’m going to do the fuel lines as well but this was cheap and easy. Worth doing. |
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Steel cowboy
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« Reply #42 on: August 16, 2023, 02:51:12 PM » |
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The TJ is F/I too. Did you make the fiber plate. Maybe a picture if possible.
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« Reply #43 on: August 16, 2023, 03:00:15 PM » |
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The TJ is F/I too. Did you make the fiber plate. Maybe a picture if possible.
No I didn’t make it. It was at a local ORiley’s auto parts place. Just a standard throttle body spacer. Was around $30 |
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Steel cowboy
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« Reply #44 on: August 16, 2023, 07:32:06 PM » |
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Thanks I’ll give it a try
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« Reply #45 on: August 17, 2023, 03:22:58 PM » |
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I took Judy out for Mexican in the Sebring. She had a good time. There are some similarities to being on the Valkyrie. Everywhere you stop people gather to ask what the heck this thing is followed by it’s SO COOL! Temps were down enough that the wind was actually enjoyable and the traffic was bearable. It was a good time for passenger and driver  |
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« Reply #46 on: August 27, 2023, 11:21:49 AM » |
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« Reply #47 on: August 29, 2023, 06:35:33 PM » |
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I hope you have that beauty garaged. Looks like you're going to get another kind of wind therapy the next couple days!  Stay safe! |
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Chrisj CMA
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« Reply #48 on: August 30, 2023, 07:26:17 PM » |
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This was too good. Tonight after church I stopped in O’Rileys for some parts for the car. I was wearing my Ford racing vest. Lol, I got the royal treatment. They must have thought I was some Ford rep or something. I never heard so many “sirs”.
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« Reply #49 on: September 06, 2023, 06:00:07 AM » |
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Getting ready for heat shielding operations, phase two. The fiber throttle body spacer helped but, the fuel is still getting too hot. This should put the problem to bed. I’m replacing the rest of the aluminum fuel line with braded rubber line covered with heat shield tubing and then a fuel cooling radiator up front. There’s really not much else can be done.  |
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« Reply #50 on: September 09, 2023, 01:55:48 PM » |
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Ok so, good, bad and good news. Lol. So, I replaced metal fuel lines for insulated braded rubber with additional heat shielding. I also installed the fuel cooler. Went for a test drive in the heat of the day. 93 degrees or so. I did 55 miles on country road. LOVED IT LOVED IT!! Before the fuel cooler and heat shielding the darned thing was getting 7 mpg. Today 54 miles and it took 4.7 gallons. So that’s like 11.5 mpg. Could be a tad better than that because the sniper had to reprogram itself and I don’t know how many miles that actually takes. The bad news, it did vapor lock once. But, good news…it was much milder in that it recovered quickly and didn’t happen again. I’m thinking about upgrading to dual fans to lower the engine temp a bit. It stays at 200 right now which is not terrible but maybe lowering that 10 or 20 might ultimately fix it.    |
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Steel cowboy
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« Reply #51 on: September 10, 2023, 06:33:02 AM » |
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Back in the seventies we used to use a “cool can”, filled it with ice to get rid of vapor lock. Basically an aluminum can with lid and aluminum tubing coiled inside of it. Fuel was ice cold at the exit. I tested it on my 68 RS Camaro and installed it on my 72 SS nova too.
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« Reply #53 on: September 18, 2023, 04:24:57 AM » |
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Hope this does the trick for you. There’s a lot of motor stuck in a small space, looks great in there.
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Steel cowboy
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« Reply #54 on: September 19, 2023, 05:08:30 AM » |
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The can was heavily insulated.
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« Reply #55 on: September 30, 2023, 02:41:53 PM » |
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Getting closer to having all the bugs worked out and being able to just enjoy this little beauty. Drove it to a HotRod car show today. Was a blast. I didn’t enter it but I learned about things I’ll need to do IF I ever want to show the car. Right now I don’t think I will. So the car ran great all day and drew a crowd (like Valkyries do sometimes) everywhere I stopped. It was almost 90 degrees here today and absolutely no fuel issues. It was great driving I’m really happy. FINALLY!!! it’s been a long hot summer of keeping this car running.  |
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« Reply #56 on: October 01, 2023, 05:24:06 AM » |
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She looks great. Sounds like you may have the fuel issue figured out. I think you’ll have more fun going to local cruise ins or cars and coffee events. No stress and a lot of fun. Congrats.
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The light at the end of the tunnel, is a train.
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« Reply #57 on: November 06, 2023, 02:31:51 PM » |
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Finally got her home installed  |
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« Reply #58 on: November 06, 2023, 03:48:56 PM » |
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I really want one of those awnings in my driveway for my Ram Promaster 2500 van. No room for a garage.
The trouble is the van is 8'6" tall and that puts the awning too close to my overhead electric line from pole to house to be code compliant.
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« Reply #59 on: November 09, 2023, 01:47:58 PM » |
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It’s like a Bat Cave sort of. Lol Now that the car is in the back yard I have to back through the gate then under the carport. It’s really cool like the Bat Cave only different.  The gates open more, I left it like that for effect  |
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« Reply #60 on: November 09, 2023, 02:09:34 PM » |
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That fence could use a little stain there Jeff.  (Not trying to be critical man, just sayin'.)  |
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Chrisj CMA
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« Reply #61 on: November 09, 2023, 02:30:46 PM » |
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That fence could use a little stain there Jeff. (Not trying to be critical man, just sayin'.) Maybe Jess. Way more important things to worry about. |
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Chrisj CMA
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« Reply #62 on: November 11, 2023, 09:55:24 AM » |
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Took the car to the RTE this morning. On the way home it was such a perfect British drive. Kind of grey and misting drizzle. Sure beat sweating to death but the big ugly rear view mirror was spoiling my view. I already re attached it because it fell off at the same time I ordered a chrome Cobra style dash mount for when it falls off again. I got tired of waiting for it to fall off again so I helped it and then installed the sexier chrome one.   It used to look like this. Dang thing took up 3/4 of the windshield  |
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« Reply #63 on: November 11, 2023, 05:49:58 PM » |
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I LIKE IT 
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Steel cowboy
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« Reply #64 on: November 13, 2023, 03:29:50 AM » |
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It fits the style of your car. Great choice.
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« Reply #65 on: November 13, 2023, 04:13:25 AM » |
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Looks much better. Always liked the look of them on the dash. |
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The light at the end of the tunnel, is a train.
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« Reply #66 on: November 13, 2023, 11:48:41 AM » |
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Very nice upgrade Jeff.
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« Reply #67 on: November 13, 2023, 01:31:14 PM » |
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« Reply #68 on: November 13, 2023, 01:53:52 PM » |
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perfect. Im half Italian so I just need a little one
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« Reply #69 on: November 17, 2023, 03:41:09 AM » |
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Oh yeah . Looks much better than the old one. |
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