Float bowl fuel level? Could explain problems on inclines.
on 3/17/01 6:16 PM, Michael Graziano at mgraziano@mindspring.com wrote:
> All,
>
> Worked on the aforementioned truck today. Got to experience the problems
> first hand.
>
> It's an '86 GMC Sierra 3500 Dually Pickup with a lifting dump bed and a V8
> (I think it's a 350 with a 2 barrel carb). It runs fine on straight and
> level road. Plenty of power. Within 100 feet of driving on an incline
> (even 10 degrees), the engine seems to die. No power, although it
> continues to run. I get a brief surge of power, then nothing, brief surge,
> then nothing. It smoothes down once we get the speed down to 25 or 30 mph.
>
> Things I've checked.
>
> Fuel Filter at the carb - changed a dirty looking filter.
> Fuel screen in the tank.
> Exhaust - new dual exhaust with NO catalytic converter
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