- 1. "Sputtering" after prolonged low speeds (score: 1)
- Author: "Winnie Olmer" <who@sover.net>
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 20:56:17 -0400
- I live down 5 miles of dirt road. I take it slow whenever I'm on a gravel road. The car runs fine until I get to the pavement and accelerate. It then sputters and "bucks". After a quarter mile or so
- /html/spitfires/1999-10/msg00040.html (7,934 bytes)
- 2. Fw: "Sputtering" after prolonged low speeds (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven P Yezo" <steven_yezo@email.msn.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 20:34:09 -0500
- sounds definitly fuel related you can check the output of your fuel pump by cranking it with a fuel line from the fuel pump into a can be carefull of course,or the fuel bowl is not filling up. you ha
- /html/spitfires/1999-10/msg00042.html (8,983 bytes)
- 3. RE: "Sputtering" after prolonged low speeds (score: 1)
- Author: "Winnie Olmer" <who@sover.net>
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 07:36:49 -0400
- The difference between your problem and mine is that I have superb performance and acceleration at all times EXCEPT after a prolonged idle or 2nd gear drive down gravel roads. Really strange!! Winnie
- /html/spitfires/1999-10/msg00044.html (9,430 bytes)
- 4. Re: "Sputtering" after prolonged low speeds (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter S." <alfapete@pacbell.net>
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 08:57:56 -0700
- Crap in the fuel tank is being churned up when you're driving on gravel roads. Then it plugs up the fuel inlet pipe in the tank. Thats my guess. Peter S by level parked then cruise accelerate the "pr
- /html/spitfires/1999-10/msg00057.html (10,453 bytes)
- 5. Re: "Sputtering" after prolonged low speeds (score: 1)
- Author: "Victor B. Michael" <vmichael@enteract.com>
- Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 10:59:16 -0500
- Mine does this every once in awhile, more or less on a regualr interval...driving the city streets of Chicago, the stuff in the tank makes it way up into the fule filter and the symptoms are the same
- /html/spitfires/1999-10/msg00058.html (11,333 bytes)
- 6. RE: "Sputtering" after prolonged low speeds (score: 1)
- Author: "Winnie Olmer" <who@sover.net>
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 12:15:21 -0400
- Thanks Peter But part of the symptoms were that I'd get the same effect when at prolonged low RPM on paved roads. i.e. long traffic light or waiting in a Dunkin Donuts line. Probably a sign to not ea
- /html/spitfires/1999-10/msg00059.html (11,392 bytes)
- 7. RE: "Sputtering" after prolonged low speeds (score: 1)
- Author: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
- Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 18:19:35 -0400
- Maybe your car is being affeced by that sugar. Sure. Right. :) That's a good thing to do. I'm assuming you have the single Stromberg carb? Anybody think that too high a float level (or a bad choke/en
- /html/spitfires/1999-10/msg00077.html (8,859 bytes)
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