2002 Saturn L-Series "gasoline vapor lock" Questions

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...gasoline in and get to start, the fuel rail is vapor locked and needs the engine running to pull this air pocket through the fuel rail,it may take more than once if the fuel filter in the rail got ...

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...gasoline turns to a vapor which will not flow thru a carburetor. The usual cause was hot fuel lines going to the carb. Since the early 1980s engines have used fuel injection which uses liquid fuel ...

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cooling system. Vapor lock is when liquid gasoline vaporizes due to excessive heat. If the engine got hot enough to turn coolant into vapor the engine would seize up. Do you have trouble code numbers

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...Vapor lock is when an engine with a carburetor gets so hot the liquid gasoline in the fuel line vaporizes. Cars with fuel injection use pressurized fuel lines and are almost impossible to vapor

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...vitara vapor lock Not really possible. True vapor lock only happens on vehicles with carburetors. The gasoline would vaporize from excessive heat before reaching the carb. What are your symptoms

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...Gasoline has what is called low vapor pressure, in English that means it evaporates very quickly, most people know this. The vapor lock is when there is only vaporized gas in the fuel line, it has to ...

...gasoline to the point of it vaporizing. This is HIGHLY UNLIKELY. If you truly do have a vapor lock condition, find out where the fuel is becoming heated and fix that condition. On a 1997 Jaguar XK8, ...

...Vapor lock happens when the fuel in the lines gets way to hot and boils/vaporizes and causes stalling . Have the fuel lines wrapped in an insulated wrap or relocate them away from heat sources. ...

...Vapor lock is a problem that mostly affects gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines. It occurs when the liquid fuel changes state from liquid to gas while still in the fuel delivery system. This ...

Vapor lock is much less likely on a fuel-injected engine with an electric pump in the fuel tank. However, an engine with port fuel injection may experience vapor lock if the injector or fuel overheats

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