Tab, have you got into the float chambers yet? What are you waiting for?
This sounds exactly what was happening when I had crud in the needle valve,
and then again when the jet unscrewed.
on 9/22/03 6:14 AM, Tab Julius at tab@penworks.com wrote:
> At 08:29 AM 9/22/03, Paul Root wrote:
>> As Rocky said, it could be the little ground wire inside the dizzy.
>
> I'll look.
>
>> Otherwise, I'd be looking at the fuel pump. It sounds like it's having
>> a hard time keeping up.
>
> Although I said that if I push the engine (say 3500+ rpms), and I can
> trigger it starting, and it will continue to plague me for the trip, what I
> perhaps didn't make clear is that it will do this even at lower speeds. In
> other words, I get on the highway - hit 80 mph (about 3600 rpm, I think, in
> overdrive), maybe a couple of minutes into this it feels like I'm running
> low on gas - speed might drop to 60, or if it's really doing poor, might
> drop down to 30 m.p.h. (or worse). I put the hazards on, get into the
> breakdown lane, and chug along. Flooring the gas does nothing, sometimes
> coming up off the gas actually relieves it a bit.
>
> I get off the Interstate, when my exit thankfully appears, and just drive
> back roads. Twenty minutes later I'm still experiencing intermittent
> problems, even at a normal 40 mph drive with moderate rpms.
>
> Had I stayed at 40 the whole trip, I might not have seen it, but having
> managed to set it off somehow (passing a car, going up a hill with speed,
> going on the highway), then it's back to plague me no matter what the
> driving style for the rest of the drive.
>
> With that extra information, would that still be in keeping with the fuel
> pump diagnosis? It strikes me more as some kind of clogging.
>
> Thanks
>
> - Tab
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