I finally got my 79 spit up to speed on the hiway this morning, and it did
the same sort of thing. At about 67 it would start to miss and it would
fall on its face if I punched it. Ran fine around town. The paint marks
on the distributer hadn't moved either (a little plumbers tape helped) but
the timing could still be off a little bit. I don't mind trying an
electric pump (carb is rebuilt and new filters all around), but what psi
and flow rate is the original pump supposed to be at? I guess I better
double check the dwell when I get a chance also.
At 02:49 PM 3/16/99 +0000, you wrote:
>
>Folks while driving up to the uni, The TR conked out. Sounds like fuel
>starvation, you drive along and then absolutely nothing, no backfire or such
>just <broom...blllll...>
>I'm always suspect of ignition failure, the rotor is ok, the cap is as new,
>the wires are all where they belong, points are good, opening and closing,
>leads are newish, plugs about 2k old. Fuel filter in front of carb shows
>some pertol as its in a slope, but not to the outlet. Pump sloshes some fuel
>in when engine cranked, about say 5ml of petrol in intervalls.
>
>Any suggestions, mine is pump duff.
>
>Cheers, Gernot
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