A caller on this past weekend’s show said her hubby poured some gasoline into the carb in order to start a car that hadn’t been started in a while. This can be necessary if all the gasoline has evaporated from the carb bowl. Apparently when the engine started in this case, it had the unintended …

If the carburetor is dry, pouring gasoline into the bowl vent will allow the carburetor to function normally. A syringe works very well but a turkey baster with a short rubber hose will also do the trick. If it’s just a cold start problem pouring a few spoons full of fuel into the dimple of the brea…

I have extinguished carburetor fires a couple of times for motorists who were running their cars without the air cleaners. I wound up being out the cost of recharging or replacing my fire extinguisher, but its better than seeing someone lose his or her automobile. My dad and brother once ran out …

Putting the air cleaner assembly back together before starting is a good way to insure there will be projectiles in the event of a serious backfire. Launching lids and fragments used to be fairly common with newbies and ether. It gets worse for ether because it evaporates before you can reassemble t…

One of my first jobs as a kid was part time gas pump jockey. One frigid night the station owner (I’ll call him “idiot”) was working on a car that wouldn’t start in a service bay. He had the brilliant idea of filling a coke bottle with gas and have me dribble it into the carb while he was turning it …

Priming fuel pump causes car to catch on fire

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Barkydog February 7, 2012, 6:06am 2

I have used a shot of starter fluid with more success than pouring gas in the carb.

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Priming fuel pump causes car to catch on fire

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