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Re: [Roadsters] Datsun - Can't figure it out

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Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Datsun - Can't figure it out
From: "Tom Hendricksen" <tom@datsun2000.com>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 08:03:02 -0700
JIm,

Did you check the fuel filter?  It is not uncommon for gunk to come down the
fuel line from the tank, or inside of the line itself.

Tom
69 2000 - Mr. Hyde
Portland
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On 5/11/2008 7:51:54 AM, Jim Gammon (gtpjimgammon@yahoo.com) wrote:
> I am hoping someone has seen the same symptoms.
>
> I completely rebuilt my engine, and had the carbs rebuilt. The
> distributor is new.
>
> I fired it up, and she ran. Wonderful.
>
> Over the past month, I tuned it as best as I could. It was running
> fine parked.
>
> Today, I took her out, and she ran very well, for about a mile, then
> she started acting up. First, she would not idle, then I had to keep
> the rpms above 2000 or she'd stall, but the time I got home, another
> mile later, she was barely running.
>
> Now she will not start. I can get her to kick over on starting fluid,
> she will sputter and even rev up for a moment, and then nothing I do
> with the throttle keeps he from reving right back down to a stall.
>
> She does have old gas, it is quite yellow. BUT when I removed the fuel
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