Seth Masia wrote:

Another problem, especially with small engines, is that if you're ever going
to get carb ice, it's now, with the fire out and the engine turning. The
exhaust manifold cools really fast on a smaller engine; you're pulling air
and water through a cold carb throat, with insufficient latent heat to melt
the resulting ice; and you may not get a restart at all.

Depends on the reason for engine stoppage. The vast majority of the temperature
drop within a carburettor is from the evaporation of fuel. If the engine stopped
because you just ran a tank dry, that source of "coolth" disappears and the carb
starts to warm up.

George Patterson
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It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.