Cars bogging while taking corners....
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Racer
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Cars bogging while taking corners....
I have a 84 Crossfire and when I take a corner gassing it it boggs down like it wants to shut off.. I replaced the fuel pump a while ago, I thought that would have fixed it.. My question is why does the car do that when the gauge reads 1 bar under half tank?... When I fill her up no problems.. Its it something simple I can fix or what advice do you guys have?
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Its pretty common on these cars to do that when you get low on fuel. How accurate is your fuel gauge? Are you putting in 18 gallons when it says its just below half a tank or are you putting in 12? My cars will do it somewhere below 5 gallons, but I've never noticed exactly where.
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Standard equipment on a lot of C4s. It annoys the crap out of me that I have to carry around an extra half dozen gallons of fuel in my '84 that I don't get to burn up, just to keep from getting a lean surge when cornering hard. It's mindboggling that this problem made it into production.
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Well, I'm pretty sure that the gauge is accurate.. I have run her out of gas once and when I did the gauge was on empty... On a side note she has a reserve tank, I guess... I ran her out and it said reserve when I started it back up... Anyways is this a problem with the sending unit or just a manufacture muck up?
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I swear the first day I bought my car I was driving home from cocoa beach and ran out of gas.. Pulled of the interstate and the car shut off... I started the car and in the bootom of the gas gauge it said reserve.... The car only went about 40-45mph and I made it to the gas station... Unless the sun got to me I swear the car has a reserve tank or something.. Anyways when I changed the pump I changed the sock.. What do you mean baffles?
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Reserve means you have a couple gallons left in the tank - get ye to a gas station ASAP
When you changed the fuel pump did you replace the filter as well?
Think of the gas tank as a rectangular box. Right where the fuel pump goes in there is a smaller open box that is bonded to the tank. This is the baffles, they sometimes break loose or the walls fall in.
When you changed the fuel pump did you replace the filter as well?
Think of the gas tank as a rectangular box. Right where the fuel pump goes in there is a smaller open box that is bonded to the tank. This is the baffles, they sometimes break loose or the walls fall in.
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reserve in any car means you have next to no fuel left. I wish they had a reserve tank. we could put a pump on it and minimize the fuel sloshing from starving the engine. Some guys have done this very thing.
There are suppose to be some baffles in the tank to keep the fuel from sloshing away from the pickup. I gather some of them break off. Then on another post where a guy backhalfed his car and cut apart the stock fuel tank, he said there was nothing inside.... Shot in the dark.
I picked up a spare tank to see if I could mod for a sump, so when you nailed it, the fuel would be pushed into the line. If I have it at my new house, I will open the box and take a look inside, given I can see anything. I bought it like 4-5 years ago and never opened it. wow it has been a long time.
There are suppose to be some baffles in the tank to keep the fuel from sloshing away from the pickup. I gather some of them break off. Then on another post where a guy backhalfed his car and cut apart the stock fuel tank, he said there was nothing inside.... Shot in the dark.
I picked up a spare tank to see if I could mod for a sump, so when you nailed it, the fuel would be pushed into the line. If I have it at my new house, I will open the box and take a look inside, given I can see anything. I bought it like 4-5 years ago and never opened it. wow it has been a long time.
Last edited by bill mcdonald; Jul 14, 2009 at 06:16 PM.