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Re: lack of power

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Subject: Re: lack of power
From: Douglas Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:02:59 -0500
At 12:44 PM 3/12/2003 -0800, Dan Canaan wrote:

>I'd pull the fuel pump and clean out the brass screen inside.  I was amazed 
>when I opened up mine on Giles.  I'm surprised there was any fuel at all 
>getting through.  It was plugged with a lot of sediment.


Very good idea.  Also shine a flashlight down the gas filler into the tank,
and see what sort of glop is sloshing around in there.

The worst-case scenario is that there is years of crud accummulation
throughout the system, and a thorough end-to-end cleaning is needed.

Doug Braun  

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