Technical Paper
A Survey of Current Automobile and Bus Fuel-Line Temperatures1
1931-01-01
310017
PREVIOUS work on vapor lock at the Bureau of Standards under the auspices of the Cooperative Fuel Research Steering Committee has resulted in considerable information regarding the relation between the properties of gasolines and vapor lock and between fuel-line design and vapor lock. Satisfactory means have been developed for predicting the conditions under which vapor lock would occur with a given fuel, but no extensive information has been available on the gasoline temperatures existing in the fuel feed lines of automotive equipment. This has made it very difficult for the refiner to supply satisfactory fuels for current automotive equipment. The present report includes temperature data obtained at several points in the fuel feed systems of 27 automobiles and 8 buses under various operating conditions.
