On 10/20/13 6:37 AM, Greg Lemon wrote:
> When you say it loses power and dies, does it just sort of quietly
> run out of steam and then dies, or miss and run rough then die?
I once accidentally filled 2 of the Land Rover's 3 fuel tanks up with
diesel. I was tired and it was the first time I had encountered a
single pump stand that pumped both petrol and diesel. The truck ran fine
as I left the station but as I was on the nearby freeway on ramp the
truck suddenly started acting like a gremlin had suddenly randomly
swapped around spark plugs. It ran sorta with almost no power and laid
out a black smoke screen out the rear.
A local shop pumped out one of my fuel tanks to use in their shop heater
and I took the other one home to be used as solvent.
There is no confusing a petrol engine running on diesel with an
electrical problem.
Could be:
- Coil going bad
- Condenser going bad
- Slipped points
- clogged fuel filter but you replaced it
- hole in fuel pump diaphragm
- water in fuel - check sediment bowl but do not remove it unless you
have a spare sediment bowl gasket in hand
- float valve not opening.
Probably more but these are likely the most common. My vote is a bad
condenser.
TeriAnn
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