At 02:21 PM 4/17/97 -0400, you wrote:
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>Glenn Sez:
>>
>> So when I finally get around to starting the car up I finally found a nice
>> smooth even idle at about 1k rpm and took it out for a drive. As soon as I
>> get out the drive I got nothing. Sputter. No power. Yeah, it'll run, but it
>> limped up to the corner. Limped back to the drive and started playing with
>> it again. More test drives and still the same thing.
>
SNIP
>
>Gooberheaded things I have done which caused this problem (good idle, no
>power when moving):
>
A good gooberhead list. Allow me to add:
7) Stuck float. Two cylinders appear to run fine throughout range & two are
fuel starved at anything but an idle. Turn on the ignition, listen for the
pump to fill the bowls, sharply rap each float chamber with a no-mar BI. If
you hear the familiar clikity-clikity-clik-clik-----clik your problem is
(temporarily) solved. Benn there, done that. Very similar to (3) in
gooberheaded list.
Cheers,
___ \______ Ross MacPherson
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