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Re: MGB problem: fuel or electrics?

To: Dave Houser <mgs4dave@warwick.net>
Subject: Re: MGB problem: fuel or electrics?
From: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 13:01:51 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, Dave Houser wrote:

> A tech question regarding my return from Indy. 
> Noticed that as we went down hills, just holding the throttle at 
> speed, but not really on the gas, so we didn't run into our friends in 
> front of us, the car hunted or surged like a stuck Grose Jet giving a 
> noticed back and forth ride. Going on the flat under power or up 
> hills, no problem at all; Went like stink with nary a miss.
> Backing off the throttle on the overrun produced same condition.
> 
> Any ideas before I check out the new fuel pump and carb floats and 
> ignition?
> 
> Thanks,
> DAve
> 

Consider a vacuum leak among your things to test.

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910


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