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- From: Steve.Kaess@f417.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Steve Kaess)
- Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
- Path: sparky!uunet!blkcat!Uucp
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Oh dear oh dear... (Was Re: Carb Questions)
- Message-ID: <718840820.F00002@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 15:17:32 -0500
- Lines: 44
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- > 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
- fuel filter.
- water in the gas.
- junk in the tank inlet screan.
- bad fuel pump.
- best of luck
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