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- From: mark@wdcwdc.sps.mot.com (Mark Shaw)
- Subject: Re: Oh dear oh dear... (Was Re: Carb Questions)
- Message-ID: <1992Oct9.202127.2339@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Sender: mark@wdc (Mark Shaw)
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- Organization: Motorola Western MCU Design Center, Chandler Arizona
- References: <ldb9ahINN2j8@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:21:27 GMT
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- In article <ldb9ahINN2j8@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, bhhardy@cs.utk.edu (Barbara Hardy) writes:
- |>
- |> Well, UTKCS2 is finally back up, and I just caught up on the
- |> conversations re: carbs. Thank you, thank you for all the help!
- |>
- |> I have another question (argh! they yelped!)
- |>
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> A friend suggested that the timing may have slipped. ANy opinions?
-
- What kind of car? Engine? I once had a Ford with a temperature sensitive
- ignition module. The car would just not run at a certain temperature.
- Appeared to be an intermittent connection inside. Replacing the module
- made it go away for good.
-
- Mark
-