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- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!utkcs2!utkcs2!usenet
- From: bhhardy@cs.utk.edu (Barbara Hardy)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Oh dear oh dear... (Was Re: Carb Questions)
- Date: 9 Oct 92 15:29:21 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Lines: 34
- Message-ID: <ldb9ahINN2j8@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
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- Well, UTKCS2 is finally back up, and I just caught up on the
- conversations re: carbs. Thank you, thank you for all the help!
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- I have another question (argh! they yelped!)
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- Last Monday, right after having watched the depressing trouncing of
- Dallas by Philly, I was driving home. Car running great. Then,
- suddenly, with no warning at all! The speedometer slides to the left.
- Hell, I think. I gear down, it pops back momentarily, and then resumes
- it's downward spiral, to end at zero thereby leaving me on a dark road
- alone at one am. My worst dream realized.
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- The mystery: it will start beautifully, and run, too, until the car
- begins to warm up a little (i.e. the choke begins to open), and then
- it acts as if it cannot get enough gas. If I am driving it, it
- stutters forward (I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to put
- down that jerking/rRR rRR rRR feeling/sound. I guess anyone who has
- ever run out of gas knows what I mean.) At rest, it finally dies no
- matter how much I try to preempt that with the accelerator pumping.
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- Anyone got a clue? I've done the spraycarbcleanerlookingfor leaks, but
- the idle is so unstable that there is really no way to be completely
- sure. THere are not HUGE leaks, though I am pretty sure, since when it
- first starts the idle is quite high and stable, and I sprayed then. Of
- course once it begins to warm up the idle is entirely unreliable.
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- A friend suggested that the timing may have slipped. ANy opinions?
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- Oh my oh my.....
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- Barbara
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