I've had some issues trying to work the bugs out of this car so hopefully someone can help. A while back I had problems with the vacumm tank. We thought it was the carburetor so we put a rebuilt one on and had the same problem with sputtering and stalling. Once a new vacumm tank went on that problem went away. Also had/have problems with my radiator being clogged. After rust from the engine getting into the radiator I had some over heating problems. After many flushes I finally got it to stop over heating in cooler weather. (I am currently having a radiator recored)

So today just for giggles I thought I'd run the car in this 90 degree heat to see if it would over heat. After a couple of minutes with the car just sitting and idling it would stall out.I thought great! I have vacumm canister problems again. I took the canister out and filled the outer tank with fuel and ran the car. Same thing. It would stall. I removed the glaas bowl to see if any setiment was obstructing the passage to the carb. I didn't see any. The one thing I thought was strange was that when I replaced the glass bowl and opened the valve to let the fuel drop down from the canister, it only came down in tiny dribbles. Only when I loosened the glass bowl holder to let air in did it come gushing down like it normally would??? Is this normal?

I drove this car the other day in cooler weather and it ran perfect for hours. The only thing I can think of is vapor lock??? The fuel line from the canister to the carb is about 1 1/4" from the manifold. Too close? Suggestions??

Incidentally, when the car would stall, I would add a little extra fuel to the canister and after a few minutes it would fire right back up and run great for a few more minutes and then stall out again. Am I barking up the right tree or should I consider looking at other things??

Thanks in advance!
Dan

Sounds like a blocked atmospheric vent on the vacuum tank.

Trust me.. It's not the vent. I've been down that road 20 times with the vacumm canister problems I had in the past.

Thanks
Dan

DAN i would move the fuel line , also if it is a copper line replace it with steel as copper attracts heat, they were steel originaly. i have had four chrysler product cars and all of them had vapor lock problems . to solve it i made sure the lines were steel , plus i wrapped them with asbestos string and fitted a heat sheild to the fuel pump , since doing that i have never had any more vapor lock problems

DAN i would move the fuel line , also if it is a copper line replace it with steel as copper attracts heat, they were steel originaly. i have had four chrysler product cars and all of them had vapor lock problems . to solve it i made sure the lines were steel , plus i wrapped them with asbestos string and fitted a heat sheild to the fuel pump , since doing that i have never had any more vapor lock problems

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Elmo39. Thank you for the reply. I noted in another thread a question about originality about copper fuel lines. As you may or may not know my car has a vacumm canister which works on gravity feed to the carburetor and has "no" fuel pump as you noted in your thread. I am wondering about what era of cars were originally steel fuel lines and what were copper. I am under the impression that in 1929 the fuel lines were copper?? Am I wrong her? Any body out ther with knowledge in this area?

It is also my understanding that the fuel today vaporizes a lot easier than the fuels formulated back then which might explain why it wasn't that prevelent of a problem.

It probably doesn't help that I've been having radiator problems with clogging and that the engine is running hotter than normal.

Thanks again for the reply
Dan