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Re: Further To No Power (GMC Pickup)

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Subject: Re: Further To No Power (GMC Pickup)
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:07:35 -0800
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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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.

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