vapor lock

By then Ken's pickup had developed a vapor lock and wouldn't start.

The fuel in the line near the engine does not move and can thus heat up sufficiently to form a vapor lock.

Vapor lock has been the cause of forced landings in aircraft.

For the same reason, diesel engines are immune to vapor lock.

Therefore, vapor lock is almost never a problem in a vehicle with fuel injection.

Gravity feed fuel systems are not immune to vapor lock.

They're designed with a vapor lock, no oxygen can get down there, so no fire.

The higher the volatility of the fuel, the more likely it is that vapor lock will occur.

This is the primary reason that vapor lock is rare in modern fuel systems.

He figured the vehicle had a vapor lock.

But ethanol has also been known to cause various engine problems, including vapor lock in hot weather and fuel line clogging.

The officials were in deep vapor lock.

His mouth fell open, his brain went into vapor lock, he forgot how to breathe.

His hand gripped mine like a vapour lock.

If he didn't get to the root of it, do something to heal himself, he was headed for vapor lock.

High temperature fuel may also result in a vapor lock, which is unrelated to flooding but has a similar symptom.

Fuel was drawn under negative pressure from the feed line, increasing the risk of a vapor lock developing between the tank and pump.

A vapor lock can also develop when the engine is stopped while hot and the vehicle is parked for a short period.

Early reliability problems, including slipping out of gear and vapor lock, cooled initial enthusiasm.

But the Razorbacks are rapidly approaching a stage where they cannot count on someone else's vapor lock to bail them out.

Vapor lock is a problem that mostly affects gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines.

The kind of vapor lock that gripped the Jets on Sunday seems to have invaded the club's locker room.

When the engine is cold and there is no vapour lock in the pipe the pump will deliver the fuel more easily.

"Total vapor lock," said Magadan, the recently installed third baseman for the Mets.

A vapor lock is more likely to develop when the vehicle is in traffic because the under-hood temperature tends to rise.