The car will start fine and run fine when we first start off.
> After about few hundred yards to a mile or so it is OK then out of NOWHERE
> it feels like it drops a couple of cylinders. Tonight it was so bad it
kept
> crapping out and would idle but when I applied gas it would accelerate on
a
> few cylinders then suddenly die back to idle. Then it .finally crapped
out.
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Hi, Wayne.
I'm not sure how you trouble shoot problems, so perhaps I am being overly
simplistic for you. Probably am.
Engine problems are either electrical or fuel. Something like this might be
either (i.e., a bad fuel filter that settles out when the car sits, but
plugs when the fuel roils up). Might be fine until under load.
So check fuel pressure to the carbs is one thought.
A second thought is, when the car is experiencing its roughness, check spark
at the plugs at each cylinder. If you're not getting spark, move backwards
testing until you do get it. Then you know where your problem is.
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