Posted by mkirsch on June 05, 2014 at 05:10:59 from (65.199.189.6):
In Reply to: stalling 504 farmall posted by Larry Zuefle on June 03, 2014 at 16:46:00:
Unless you wrapped the fuel line several times around the manifold before you connected it to the carburetor, I highly doubt it's vapor lock.
Have you checked fuel flow? With the line disconnected from the carburetor, gas should flow full force out the line, not dribble, not trickle.
The overheating may be a another symptom of the actual problem. Burned valves will cause an engine to suddenly stop running inexplicably. I had a Cub Cadet once that would fire instantly and run fine, but after about 2 minutes, it would just stop running. It would start right back up and run a little more, then quit again. Over and over. Turned out to be a burned exhaust valve.
Burned valves seal well enough until they get warmed up a little, then they don't seal at all. No compression, no run...
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