[TR] Car trouble in Hannibal, Mo

[TeriAnn J. Wakeman]

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