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- From: forbesm@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Mark Forbes)
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- Subject: Re: Sudden stalls in 83 Stanza...Freeway speed...Diagnosis apprecia
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.022525.18881@leela.cs.orst.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 02:25:25 GMT
- Article-I.D.: leela.1992Dec12.022525.18881
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- Exactly the same thing happened to a roommate's Datsun B210. After much
- mysteriousity, it turned out to be a piece of cardboard (legacy of an improvised
- funnel) floating around in the gas tank. It would occasionally float down under
- the fuel intake tube and seal off the fuel flow. When the engine was stopped,
- the cardboard would drift off after a few minutes. Start up and drive away,
- ten miles later (or 50 feet) it would happen again. I dropped the tank and
- flushed it out twice before we got it all.
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- Your comment that you had a strong smell of gas has me puzzled. There is an
- alternate possibility; dirt in the carburetor, assuming it has one. That
- could prop open the float bowl valve, overflowing the bowl and flooding the
- engine. You'd get real rough operation, stalling, and it would be better
- when cold.
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- If it's fuel-injected, check for a stuck or intermittently stuck-open
- cold start injector. Failing all that, I'd go for the ignition theory.
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