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Old Jul 11, 2015 | 07:25 PM
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carb with fuel issues

Hello All, I have an 87 F-250 5.8 HO 4Bbl over 8400 lbs. I replaces the timing chain, cover, water pump, and fuel pump. Now at idle it will start to run rich, smoke from the exhaust, and fuel will start to"percolate" from the bowl vents. Timing is spot on. Does anyone else think it could be a bad fuel pump?
 
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Old Jul 11, 2015 | 10:30 PM
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Been awhile since i messed eith a carb but the first thing id check is the floats. If they're stuck up it would cause the fuel to go out the vents.
 
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Old Jul 11, 2015 | 10:51 PM
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normally I would check this, but the issue wasn't there until I did this work. The only reason I did these repairs was a coolant leak from between the timing cover and the block. did the timing chain because of the mileage of the engine. the timing cover had a crack in it. the water pump, just because. and the fuel pump because of wear on the pump arm, and oil coming from the vent port on the side of pump.
 
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also of note is the fuel pump has one port in and two outputs. One to the carb and one that has a small orifice that goes back to the tanks.
 
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Old Jul 12, 2015 | 07:19 AM
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Did you pull the return line to make sure fuel was flowing back to tank and not blocked?
 
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You've got fuel coming past the needle and seat. Either your new pump is putting too much pressure to the carb or you got some debris in there that's preventing the needle/seat from shutting off the fuel.
 
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I'll check the return line. Hopefully I just got some shmutz in it and I can blow it out. THANKS
 
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