02-22-2021, 07:12 AM | #11 | |
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Re: Fuel pump supply preferences
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Another thing that most clones need is a fuel return line. If your fuel supply line is 1/4", you have to install a brass T fitting in the line that goes to the carb, as close to the carb as you can, then run a 3/16" line back to the tank (smaller diameter). This will allow lower pressure to remain at the carb while allowing excess fuel to bypass and go back to the tank. Lots of threads here about this. |
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02-22-2021, 10:35 PM | #12 |
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Re: Fuel pump supply preferences
I did add a fuel return line. The pulse from the carb intake was really strong and was flooding out the carb. I was amazed at how much fuel was traveling through the fuel return when I started it up after adding it. It’s a transparent fuel line so it was visible. I had read in the threads somewhere where Geoff , the owner of VC said they only use the carb intake for pulse and always put a fuel return line in. I can understand why now. After adding the return line, the cart started up and ran very nicely, though I have to choke it very briefly every time I start it. It also at the higher RPM’s either activated the rev limiter or doesn’t have quite enough fuel flow to satisfy the engine’s demand. I need a better tach than the cheap Chinese digital knock off that I had on the cart when the KF82 was in it. Either one can be fixed as I understand it. The rev limiter can be overcome with a NR Racing coil, and the fuel starving by enlarging the main jet. The tach should be able to tell me which it is I presume.
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02-22-2021, 11:28 PM | #13 |
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Re: Fuel pump supply preferences
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02-23-2021, 08:40 AM | #14 |
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Re: Fuel pump supply preferences
The reason your carb was flooding was not due to the strong fuel pulse, but because that carb is designed for gravity feed. Those fuel pumps only supply a few pounds of pressure and flow is fairly low. But those pumps work the same way on all kinds of different engines without the flooding issues and without return lines, because they have carbs that were designed for pump use.
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02-23-2021, 10:23 AM | #15 |
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Re: Fuel pump supply preferences
You would know better than me Slo. This cart popped my clone swap cherry. I will say that the amount of fuel that i could see returning to the tank seemed robust for such a little pump. I have filed away the carb recommendations of a couple of you clone veterans though. If it turns out to be a PITA, I’ll swap it out for something better suited to the purpose. Thanks for monitoring my progress. Having this forum feels like being back in shop class. There’s someone watching over your shoulder letting you figure stuff out but there to stop you from screwing up too badly.
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