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Re: Low on power

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Subject: Re: Low on power
From: Peter Chast <pchast@francomm.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 08:37:27 -0400
Hi

Also if there is a carbon cannister there are 
rubber fuel lines in the trunk that rot out.

Pete

5/20/2003 5:10:06 AM, "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>Bad floats or valve will pour fuel out of the overflows.  If the car has the
>carbon canister it will be visible there.  But blue smoke is usually oil,
>and if it had been so rich due to floats it stalled I wouldn't have expected
>you to be able to start it again, much less get back to normal power.  Start
>with a compression check, then valves, plugs, points, timing, carb airflow
>balance and mixture to eliminate the usual rubbish.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kendel McCarley" <kmmccarley@earthlink.net>
>To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 5:37 AM
>Subject: Low on power
>
>
>> ...  On the way back, I
>> lost power and wasn't able to get over 40 mph.  At a stop light it died.
>>  When I started it back up as the light turned green, I returned to full
>> power for a while until turning left and I went down again.  Lots of
>> blue smoke on starting it back up.

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