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Originally Posted by AX-O
I spoke with Don at airflow regarding this about 3 months ago. He is the one that told me to remote mount the purge valve and that an 8 to 9 inch line would not affect functionality. After reading the operations manual, it said to cut the engine off using the purge valve vice the mixture. Would that not burn all the fuel on the lines after the purge valve?
Will not use the hard line. Thanks.
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The purge valve will dump the fuel pressure as soon as you open it and the engine will stop immediately. And I mean RIGHT NOW! Nothing in the lines will burn as there will be no pressure to deliver it to the combustion chambers.
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