Re: beware v8 hydro-lock

[ScharfR@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-04-13 22:29:44 EDT, AUDIDUDI@delphi.com writes:

> The fuel pump only
>runs if the engine is running (or being cranked over) and the brief squirt
>of fuel you get from the cold-start system is a LOT less than 50cc.  I can
>see how this might happen if you cranked the motor over 25 or 30 times and
>it never fired but even then I find it a lonnggg stretch...

As you crank a non-starting engine, you would be expelling much of the
injected fuel every time you got around to an exhaust stroke.  Raw fuel it
may be, but it is pretty finely atomized.  Most of it moves right along out
the exhaust valve as you pump the air/fuel mixture through a non-starting
engine.  Some of it will condense on the cold walls and piston top and give
you a good chance of fouing the plugs.  But there is no way you would dump
in, and then retain, enough fuel to lock up the engine just from extended
cranking.