Pop open the gas cap when the car dies. If you get a whoosh of inrushing
air,
your charcoal canister line is plugged.
Greg Rowe
>From: elliottr@rmi.net
>
>On Tue, Jul 5, 2005 at 12:38 PM, d t gebhard wrote:
>
> > Well here it is 4th of July weekend and I'm not driving the
> > > Spit...vapor lock or at least that's what I think it is. Symptoms, let
>it idle
> > > to get hot. drive away with plenty of go but then
>chugga,chugga,chugga,die.
> > > Let cool, restart. Repeat. I've moved the fuel line to go near the
>firewall
> > > and built what I thought to be an effective heat shield. I will
>entertain any
> > > and all ideas. It's still got the original fuel pump and stromburg
>carb.
> > >
> > > Thank
> > > Dave Gebhard
> > > 1972 Spit
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