RE: JPOR: RE: Carb problem?

["Maurice Cox" <maurice_cox@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is it possible that when he switches carbs, he doesn't hook a fuel return 
line up, so the diaphragm leak is more evident with the Holley?  Extra 
pressure forces fuel through the diaphragm instead of back to the tank?

Mo

>I was thinking that all the excess fuel would get burned up and from the
>combustion and that the plugs would foul. I was thinking that it would be
>similar to when a choke stays closed too long and the engine will stall 
>from
>too rich of a mixture.  But, then again if the mixture does become too 
>rich,
>maybe the engine stalls because the mixture is wrong and won't burn?
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>I'd guess that either the carb is leaking fuel down thru the intake
>manifold, into the combustion chamber, and past the rings into the oil, or
>the carb is just too frakin big for the 258 and all the unburnt fuel from
>the combustion process is getting past the rings.

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