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on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down with Ads! Again, thanks! | | | | Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 28 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 28 | 1946 2Ton with 235 all stock original. I've had this truck for 15 years or so and have always run regular pump gas, which for some time here has been E-10. No issues. If I shut her down hot I'd notice some mild boiling of fuel in the glass bowl but it would only go down half way or so and then quit -- truck restarted hot reasonably so long as I held the throttle 1/4 open or so and did not pump the accelerator at all. Then came this summer -- bowl will boil all the way dry and even when running (and hot) the fuel pump will only sputter fuel into the bowl and keep it, maybe, 1/4 full at idle. She'll starve for fuel at prolonged red lights and she never did that before. I swapped the fuel pump out for a spare but no real improvement. Pulled the flex line off the bottom of the fuel tank and looked down the inside -- all OK there. put it back on and opened the petcock and fuel runs freely so that's good. Blew out steel line from tank/flex line to pump and that's OK.
1) Seems like the boiling point of the fuel is just low. Maybe I got a load of fuel with higher than spec ethanol? 2) I hear a lot of problems with bad out of the box fuel pumps. Thoughts in my case?
I'm reluctant to add insulation around lines, etc. as I'm an originalist -- also the truck did fine for years and nothing regarding the physical setup has changed. The only non-ethanol fuel available here is also high-octane (93 - 95) Is that any better from a boiling point perspective? OK to run in an old 235?
Thanks in advance?
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