Re: [MV] Re: m715 dieselling

Steven P. Allen (spallen@rolemail.ccis.edu)
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:07:39 -0500

At 04:21 PM 10/2/98 -0400, Dave Cole wrote:

>I was also going to mention the water through the carb trick, but I thought
>I might be labeled as crazy! Actually on a bigger engine like a 350 chevy,
>you can actually pour the water into the carb. It is really amazing the
>amount of water you can pour in before killing the engine. Just put one
>hand on the throttle and another on the container and dribble it into the
>carb while reving up the engine. . . .

Be Careful dumping water down a carb: for the purposes of our engines, it
is both imcompresible and incombustible! If the water takes up all of the
volume of the combustion chamber, the result is a hole in the piston crown
and/or a bent rod.

Steve Allen

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