At 03:31 PM 8/2/99 -0400, Scott Rexford wrote:
>.... I have gotton my B to run, and she ran fine...at idle, that is until
I test drove her, now she sputters out after about ten to fifteen seconds,
.... I know the car has gas, and it starts up fine....but then after being
in gear a short time....she dies on me, almost as if she was being starved
of gas .... Now even at idle she will only run a short time, and then...put
put put.....blah.
Yup, fuel starfation. Pull the fuel hose off at the carb, hold a container
under the hose, turn the key on, and see how fast the fuel flows. You
should get at least a pint a minute. If not, reattach the hose, go back to
the fuel pump, remove the output line from the pump and try the flow test
again. Good flow here but not up front indicates an obstruction in the
line, possibly from a jack or hoist smashing the steel fuel line.
If not much flow at the pump, possibly a clogged pickup in the tank.
Remove the gas cap, disconnect the inlet line at the pump, apply a little
air pressure to this line to blow back into the tank momentarily, reconnect
the line to the pump and repeat the flow test. If this gets the flow you
need, then there's probably trash in the tank that clogs up the pickup
tube, in which case you need to remove the tank to rinse it out.
If fuel runs out of the pump inlet line when you disconnect it, but you
still don't get enough flow at the pump outlet, then it's time to bepair or
replace the pump.
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
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