Tom,
Did you let the gas tank run much lower than you normally do? If so, maybe
there was some old sludge and crud down low in the tank and now you've got
it in your fuel lines or carbs? I really doubt it would've been the gas
itself, especially since it started happening immediately when you started
up --- you would've been mostly on the prior gas at that point.
Dave Moag
77 Spitfire
62 TR3B
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-spitfires@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-spitfires@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Thomas Carney
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 1:55 PM
> To: spit list
> Subject: bad gas killed my car(GT6)??
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> Last week I had no gas and not much money $2.00 exactly. Pulled
> into an ok station and got regular 89octane. As soon as I
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> out my car lost power and was misfiring. Made it all the way home and
> drained the gas thinking that was the culprit. Got some good higher
> octane stuff, still no change. At idle it only runs on the cylinders
> 4,5,and 6. Checked for spark on cylinders 1,2, and 3 and there was
> spark. At higher revs the first 3 cylinders kick in but the car still
> runs like crap. I've narrowed it down to the front carb, I think. Any
> idea what happened?
> Thanks
> Tom
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