I had a similar nagging problem that turned out to be clogged fuel
lines from the tank. Some bozo had dropped a golf ball in the tank
and all those little rubber bands came loose and even after I took
out the tank and cleaned it they were already in the fuel lines. It
would run while then die. I disconnected the fuel lines on both ends
and took an air hose and blew back towards the tank and a hole lot of
little rubber bands blew out. No more problem with that!
Doug
At 08:25 PM 10/21/2007, Roger Elliott wrote:
>About one month ago, my wife was driving her TR250 home from a car show
>when it started running rough. She was about 2 miles from home and
>manged to get the car there. It was fairly hot day we have both had
>experiences with spark plug wires so we suspected one had gone bad. In
>the process of checking them one of the connectors cam off the wire - so
>even if they had not been bad, they were now. So I replaced the wires,
>cap, rotor, condenser.
>
>We took it out for a test drive and it died after driving about 3
>miles. It restarted and seemed to be running okay so we took off. It
>died again after about 3 miles (we weren't home yet because of the route
>we had taken.) It was acting like it ran out of fuel - we had over half
>a tank. So I figured it must be the fuel filter or pump - I started
>with the filter as it was easily available from the local NAPA store. I
>also discovered tears in the carb diaphragms so I replaced those.
>
>It seems to idle and rev up normally so we took it out for another test
>drive and it died again after about 2 miles. The fuel filter is full
>of gas. The coil does not feel hot. So we get it home and I look at
>the diaphragm in the fuel pump. There are no tears in it. I haven't
>done any kind of pressure test or flow test.
>
>Does this seem like a fuel pump problem? Anything else I should consider?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Roger Elliott
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