missfiring problems
#21
Also, not sure about the 4th gen gas tank, but the 3rd didn't have any baffles. It has a metal boxed-in area that the pump sets into.
#22
well i got the car back today and the guy at the shop today told me that he thinks someone poured sugar down my tank. its running ok but it still pisses me off that someone would do that. a hole in my ac compressor just kinda showed up recently too. kinda looks like someone drilled a hole through it. needless to say i have no ac now
#24
Wedge a potato or two up his tailpipe. If he has a fairly tight sealing exhaust, it should make the engine kill because it can't breathe. No harm to the engine, and it'll take him a while to figure it out.
But, you didn't hear it from me, cuz that wouldn't be a nice thing to do to someone!
But, you didn't hear it from me, cuz that wouldn't be a nice thing to do to someone!
#25
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Eastern PA,
Posts: 10,462
You're not the only one I've heard say that before. What is that supposed to mean anyway? The fuel is still sucked off the bottom of the tank whether it's full or almost empty.
Also, not sure about the 4th gen gas tank, but the 3rd didn't have any baffles. It has a metal boxed-in area that the pump sets into.
Also, not sure about the 4th gen gas tank, but the 3rd didn't have any baffles. It has a metal boxed-in area that the pump sets into.
The reason you have heard it before is because most of the time a sock gets completely plugged is when a car runs out of gas. They will get a gallon of gas and it will still not start. Next it shows up at the dealer on a flatbed. With FI cars it noramlly took a pump. With Carb cars the sock just needed cleaning. Or in the case of people with no money a quick blast from a air gun into the fuel line.
Last edited by Gorn; 07-31-2009 at 04:45 AM.
#26
The sock doesn't float, at all. It's mounted to the bottom of the pickup tube of the sending unit, and the tube is connected at the center of the sock. Basically, forming a "T". The sock is rigid, rests at the bottom, and stays there.
#28
Don't get mad....get even!!
Let me add, if his exhaust is irregular where you can't stuff in a potato, Great Stuff (expanding foam) will fill that pesky leaking hole in the tailpipe too.
Let me add, if his exhaust is irregular where you can't stuff in a potato, Great Stuff (expanding foam) will fill that pesky leaking hole in the tailpipe too.
#29
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Eastern PA,
Posts: 10,462
I never said it floated? Yes it sits near the bottom. I have no idea how many dozen I have had apart. Its enough I can not remember which one is which. But if you limit the area of flow you increase the rate of the flow. When you get down to the last inch or so of gas you increase the flow at the bottom. Or so I am guessing. I did not make up the fact that plugged sock normally show up on cars that have just run out of gas. It ws told to me within a few months of becoming a mechanic and for about 5 years I saw about 1/2 dozen cases that proved it to me. I can not remember a plugged sock on a car that had not run out of fuel, although I am sure it has happened.
#30
Oh alrighty then, I kinda see what you're trying to say. When you said "360 degrees", I was envisioning the thing bobbing like a float. From what you describe, I guess anything is possible. But man, you'd have to have a crap load of crap (or sugar) down there! I've even seen the deadly "floating slime" in old tanks, where gas flow would be fine until the level went down far enough for the sock to suck it off the top and clog.