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Re: Fuel Starvation - Need Help

To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Fuel Starvation - Need Help
From: Allan Carmichael <al671600@home.com>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 17:52:16 -0800
The symptoms you describe are similar to my own problem three years ago.
It was definitely a fuel problem:  collapsed interior of the rubber fuel
line delivering to the carbs.  Float bowls would run dry at anything more
than a low idle, as the line could not meet a higher demand.

When it dies, are the float bowls full or empty?  If empty, fuel delivery
problem:  as you have new lines, etc, I would also recommend looking
upstream towards the tank, as in the previous messages.  Kinked fuel line
under the car?

>My 1600 starts & idles fine.  I can drive it about one mile with no
>problems...matter of fact it runs great.  Then at about the one mile mark
>(sometimes less, sometimes more) it sputters, then dies.  I can not restart
>unless I let it sit about 30 minutes.  Once it re-starts it runs great, but
>again it will die after driving it a short distance.  I can replicate this
>problem in the garage if I let it idle for a long time.
>
>I think that for some reason the car is not getting the gas it needs...fuel
>starvation.  Here is what I have done to the car recently:
>
>New Carbs - adjusted & balanced
>New manifold
>New fuel line (both rubber & metal)
>New fuel pump
>Gas tank removed & professionally cleaned
>Car is tuned properly - new plugs, wires, etc
>New distributer

Allan Carmichael
Victoria, BC
67.5 1600

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