In the words of Jim Carrey in Liar Liar - I've had better.......late night rides.
Pictures are worth a thousand words.......
No, this wasn't close to big enough for an oil fire.......
The perfect storm...... I've been making float adjustments to minimize braking induced stalling, had it pretty close last night. Tonight I made a quick 1/8 turn adjustment to front and rears, fired it and it was running rich, shut it down and noticed the front float appeared stuck. Losened the adjuster and rotated CCW & CW 1/4 turn fired it and it seemed ok. Headed down the road started smelling fuel, shut it down and had fuel building up in the manifold. Realized I'd accidentally left the adjusting wrench and screw driver on the work bench at home so I tapped the float bowl hard a few times with another screw driver hoping to free it and fired it up, hoping to get it home (1 mile) I hammered the throttle hard in first gear thinking it may clear any debrie in the needle seat and once the car straightened up from the drift I saw the dreaded orange glow in the cowl, shut it down grabbed the extingusher, depleated it, still burning grabbed a towel from the trunk and tried to smoother it and then realized I had a oil fueled fire also. Thankfully two different passer-byes pulled over, one with another larger towel since mine wasn't enough and another with a flat of bottled water, the three of us finally managed to get it out.
Can't thank those people enough, it wouldn't have been pretty without their assistance.
At this time I'm not sure where the oil came from. Possibly (hopefully) a blown oil filter seal or lose filter. Definitely interested in locating the source. Looks like the short Oregon summer is over for this hot rod.
Irrational PS - Don't ask me how I feel about Barry Grant's Speed Demon carbs right now. I've fought that POS since day one and now this the final and expensive straw. I know, any 4150 can get debrie in the needle, but for some reason beating a dead horse makes me feel little better right now.
