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Bob Mears <bmears9413@aol.com> wrote:
> I actually a little surprised it had that much stumble. I would think 
> with the fuel injection and a re circulating system it would just pass 
> the water through the system and slowly burn it off. I guess it was a 
> fair amount of water and thats all that was going through the system 
> at the time. Like a quart of so in the bottom of the tank. That would 
> take a bit to pass through. Interesting.

That depends on how much fuel can be held in a branch that has no outlet 
other than the injector.  If the runs off the main path are short, then 
the effect should be short lived (but pucker-factor is measured in very 
long, individual, nano-seconds).

Dale R.