From: Nigel Hay - MILWEB (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 12:52:23 PDT
If they were chips from McDonalds they are probably so small they got
through the fuel filter........
----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Flack" <lflack@thrupoint.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:19 PM
Subject: [MV] Surging idle on Dodge WC54
> Hi There,
>
> When filling up with gas before a show in my WC54 Dodge I noticed that
> some clown had pushed half a bag of potato chips down the filler cap. I
> pulled out what I could and carried on with the journey, 10 miles later
she
> started to misfire while cruising at about 40mph. When I slowed down
things
> got worse until she stalled and I had to keep restarting. I made it to the
> show but the misfire was real bad and there was quite a bit of black
smoke.
> A couple of guys kindly helped investigate and it seems that after the top
> of the Zenith carb was dismantled things seemed to improve. We werent sure
> but it looked as if the accelorator (?) pump clip had come off. The black
> smoke dissapeared along with the misfire but now I am left with a
> significant idle surge.
> Not sure if the chips are significant as there is a good fuel filter in
> line before the fuel pump. Anyone any idea as to what is causing the idle
> surge now?
>
> regards
>
> Les
>
>
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