Fuel flow meter for cars .. ?

Don't buy any kind of a vehicle that didn't come factory equipped with a two barrel (or one barrel) carburetor.

A guy who lives in a house on a street behind me, he has a nice looking

1990 Chevrolet RV van with a 350 cubic inch engine and the engine has a throttle body fuel injection thingy, for sale, $1,100.The van has about 90,000 miles on it.

I know all about how to keep my old vehicles with carburetors running good.I am staying away from those new fangled vehicles with that so-called ''modern technology'' stuff on them. cuhulin

Spook Hill in Hainesville,Florida.(I think it is in Hainesville) I was there one time.A sign said, park your vehicle on the line across the road, shut the engine off, put it out of gear, watch your vehicle coast uphill.I did that, (1971 Chevrolet van) my vehicle coasted a few feet uphill.Of course, I know it was/is only an optical illusion. cuhulin

Why?

Single point injection is an extremely crude way of doing things giving near the complexity of proper injection but with most of the disadvantages of a carburettor. Of which there are many.

New fangled? Even modern type all electronic fuel injection has been around for 30 years or so. Mechanical injection before WW2. It's not beyond any half competent home mechanic to learn how it works and how to fault find. But you can be sure you'll need less of that than with a carb or two.

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Because I Know So! One barrel carburetors and two barrel carburetors can't be beat! No matter with how much y'all come up with y'alls Phoney little excuses for sucking up to fed govt's Bull Shit! cuhulin

I hate carburetors. They're ok for lawnmowers and such, but for cars they're sloppy imprecise Rube Goldberg-esq contraptions. On the best of days, the fuel/air mixture will never be as precise as it will with a decent injection system. Flooding, cold idle issues, dirty emissions, I was not sad to see them go away.

Ask any of the guys on the Megasquirt list, after converting to injection you immediately get a smoother running engine, more power, improved throttle response, better gas mileage, no problems with altitude changes, it's like a whole new car. Race cars were using injection back in the 50s, better European cars were injected by the early 70s, American car companies were finally dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century in the late 80s.

Injection systems are mechanically simple and electrically consist of just a few sensors, some wiring, relays, a pump, and a control box. If you're not comfortable working with that stuff what are you doing on an electronics repair group?

You assume a context of the developed world with a sustained tech. base; try maintaining modern vehicles in remote locations under extreme conditions without benefit of spares, test jigs and proprietary instruments. There will always be a need for simple and elegant tech. which can be maintained with basic tools, techniques and knowledge, not to mention the issue of EMP survivability.

Michael

The Cuhulin troll does live in Mississippi. He also likes to pretend that he's a teen age girl and uses the screen name "flowersonthewater". He's bragged about it on several newsgroups. Thank God for kill filters.

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Wow, thats a trip.. And you ended up about 20 minutes from my house.

Mike

That was the second trip. I brought 17,000 pounds of tools, parts and test equipment with me in thwe two trips. About 1050 miles, one way. When I decided to move, the truck's engine was siezed from sitting for four years. A drunk driver had run out of the road and hit my car, rammed it into the truck, and totaled both cars. The gas tank had a seven inch long crack, someone swiped the fron grill, and the back bumper was missing. I got the truck running for $8, and drove it a little over 5000 miles. The body work was about $100, a used gas tank was $50. I mad an aluminum tube grill out of scrap for another $8, and a back bumper for 97 cents. Uhaul wanted $750 dollars for three days, one way.

I'm still not that far away, I'm in southern Marion County.

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I bought my 1914 Ford T Model Runabout Roadster car (which I still have right here) from a guy in Sioux Falls,South Dakota in November 1971.He and his wife were moving to Minneapolis and they couldn't take the car with them.The next morning I rented a U Haul Ford truck and the guy helped me put my car in the U Haul truck.I drove from Sioux Falls to Jackson non stop except to have to stop for gas for the U Haul truck.

In the last few years, I have seen five cars abondoned on the street I live on because the cars had fuel injection, or some other kinds of new fangeled gadgets on them.One and to barrel carburetors on cars beat throttle body/fuel injection every time.Easy and cheap for the average shade tree mechanic to keep them running.Try that with with your fancy throttle bodies/fuel injection vehicles. cuhulin