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Re: Still No Joy

Subject: Re: Still No Joy
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 19:44:55 -0800 (PST)
Cc: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
In-reply-to: <3480D75B.5A0387C@utk.edu>
Reply-to: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Adrian wrote:

> perhaps a bad O2 sensor.  Could you possibly have a leak in your vacuum
> system?  Your symptoms are TOO much like what her car is doing. (and
> hers is a '91!).  Just my thoughts...
> 
> adrian

But he can simulate the behavior by pulling the choke, pointing possibly
to a rich mixture, not a lean one as caused by a vacuum leak.  Also, he
gets the same results with SUs and the Weber.  Since they use different
manifolds, both setups would have to have a vacuum leak...

Next idea!

Ulix



> 
> 
> Larry G. Miller wrote:
> > When driving at a steady RPM (any speed in 4th gear) the car will run fine 
>for
> > a few minutes and then start to miss.  I can simulate this miss by pulling 
>the
> > choke all of the way out.  When it starts missing I can press the clutch in
> > and let the engine go to idle and it stops missing and will run fine for a 
>few
> > minutes and then do it again. With the accelerator wide open it never does 
>it.
> > I held it on the floor for about 5 miles on the freeway (actually passed a 
>few
> > cars) and it ran fine the whole time. A couple of minutes after I backed off
> > it started to miss, mashed the clutch, let it go to idle, and it stopped.
> > 
> > I have swapped out every major part and nothing makes any difference.  
> -- 
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>       adrian@utk.edu
> 
> "How about going back to sleep for
>  a few minutes and forgetting all
>  this nonsense"  -Gregor Samsa
> 
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    Ulix                                                    __/__,__        
.......................................................... (_o____o_)....
                                                           '67 Sprite


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