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Tuning up the Little Red Hen

98taco3

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Figured id post up some photos of our project that has been on going for a month or so now. Had some issues with the engines running very rich and some suspected fuel leaks. We decided to pull the armor and radiators to investigate and really found out what ethanol does to the old gasket materials! Even having NOS carbs required rebuilding them to make sure they can handle ethanol. We rebuilt 2 NOS carbs and installed em. Also replaced the plug wires and cleaned out the fuel pumps while we were in there. Also bent new fuel lines from the pumps to the carbs, the ones in there were made of copper and were not run properly. Both engines run much better now and no fuel leaks!
 

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dittle

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We run the un-oxygenated stuff in our M3A1 halftrack and M5A1 Stuart at the museum. Already went though a set of fuel pumps in the Stuart last year. Check your oil to make sure some gas didn't leak in there.
 
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