RE: [DML] lost power

["John Hervey" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Darryl, Part of the problem could be fuel pressure. When was the last time
the fuel filter was changed. How old or new is the fuel pump. If all this
checks out ok, then the control plunger in the fuel distributor may be
setting to low because the idle control screw loosened. You may have to re
adjust the 02 setting.
John Hervey
www.specialtauto.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Soma576@xxxxxxx [mailto:Soma576@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 1:17 PM
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [DML] lost power


In a message dated 2/1/04 11:36:25 AM Central Standard Time,
mydmc5898@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Ok I was driving home after a successful day of driving my D, anyway
I stoped with a friend to go get coffee, and as we pulled back out
onto the highway the car just shut off, all the electricaly stuff,
radio, lights, etc... stayed on but I couldn't get the car to start.
I went back to see if anythinf was leaking, fell off, what have you
but everything seemed fine no smell, nothing. So I tired maybe six
times, on the seventh the car beagan to shake and the last and 8th
time it started fine, it would shake a few times when we slowed down
but never died at all. What could have caused this?


Thanks
Darryl
5898
>>>>>>>>>>>
At one point in my ownership, my car would sometimes just shut off all by
itself.  turned out to be a combination between a couple loose fuses and
relays
and the wiring to the ignition resistors was poor.

your case actually sounds more like a fuel problem, and we have heard this
story so many times before.  try filling your gas tank up and i bet the
problem
will go away.  what happens is over time the pickup hose in the tank gets
cracked or starts to collapse and once the gas goes down below the crack,
you
start sucking air, which will make the car 1: not start, if at all, and 2:
if it
does start, will run 'shakey'.

you need to open the fuel pump access cover and replace everything in the
tank if you have not done so.  i bet your pickup hose is either deteriorated
or
really soft and collapsing.

Andy


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