[TR] TR4 "Sputtering"

[Andrew Mace]

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Thomas <thomasb at queensu.ca>








Hi guys,?
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Yesterday, we drove the just under 300 miles to Stowe , Vermont in 
the TR4A with it "sputtering" just about all the way.  Power on the 
hills was very poor where normally pushing on the accelerator 
increases the speed easily.  Arriving in Vermont, the rear bumper was 
covered in a blue haze which was not oily. ...
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Any ideas would be appreciated. 

==AM==
Inline fuel filter plugging up, or dirt in the float bowls or elsewhere? Certainly, ignition is where I usually look first for such problems, but that would be the second place I'd look. I don't know about bad 11-year-old plug wires, but I've got some original 45-year-old plug wires that still work pretty darned well. But then, "they don't make 'em like they used to...." :-)
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--Andy Mace

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