On Thu, 6 Jan 1994, Roland Dudley wrote:
> Now to the important (to me, anyway) part- Recently I've been
> experiencing an intermittent problem when I drive the car. The symtoms
> are somewhat like vapor lock, though I'm reasonable sure that's not the
> vapor lock problem in the past, even in very hot weather. The symtoms
> are sudden coughing or outright dying for a short period. Usually
> there's no difficulty re-starting, though there may be a bit of coughing
> or missing for a few seconds. Then everything seems to be fine.
> Sometimes there's only a subtile hesitation or a "missed beat". To me,
> it seems like brief episodes of fuel starvation, but I can't get the
> symptoms to last long enough to pin the problem down. Once it started
If it happens only or primarily when you depress the throttle, you should
check the accelerator pump in the carb.
Ray Gibbons
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