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Oct 12, 2008 | 10:43 PM

pspeck

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engine trouble

I was driving down the expressway and all of the sudden my car started acting like it was running out of gas. it chugged and coughed and finally died. My gas gauge has been acting funny so thought maybe out of gas. put in gas,no go. put gas in carb and finally started. Now I can only get acceleration when engine is not under load IE. going up hill. Drove 40 miles @ 30 mph and it finally stalled out and would not start. Fuel tank is full, oil pressure is great. Where should I start to problem solve???:

Oct 12, 2008 | 11:10 PM

PETE 79

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I would check the fuel pressure first.

Oct 12, 2008 | 11:22 PM

Z-man

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Maybe you ran it so low on gas that it sucked a bunch of junk into the fuel line, partially plugging it... ???

Oct 12, 2008 | 11:28 PM

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What year? Points might have closed up.

Oct 12, 2008 | 11:48 PM

63mako

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Fuel filter

Oct 13, 2008 | 12:01 AM

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Fuel filter

YUP!!!!

Oct 13, 2008 | 01:03 AM

BigBlockTank

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Originally Posted by PETE 79

I would check the fuel pressure first.

and someone else said filter. Git'er done. Had an old Chevy truck that ran just like that.

Oct 13, 2008 | 09:01 PM

tnovot

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In my opinion, you almost identified the root cause when you did a trouble shooting scerario by stating the problem in your original post when you said that you added gas to the tank with a no start but it started after you put gas directly into the carb. As others have already stated, the problem is related to fuel delivery.
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