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Re: '66 Spitfire (still sucking wind)

To: Patrick Niemeyer <pat@fegmania.wustl.edu>, british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: '66 Spitfire (still sucking wind)
From: lupienj@wal.hp.com (John Lupien)
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:22:18 EDT
> It hasn't changed it's behavior at all... (runs well till it gets warm
> then starts to stall and dies.  Picks up a little if I open the choke all
> the way... )

This same symptom was exhibitted by the Datsun I was working on last
week. It turned out that the problem was the wire to the anti-runon
solenoid was loose, and not opening up the fuel cutoff. With the choke
on, there was enough suction to pull fuel past the cutoff, but without
it there wasn't.


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John R. Lupien
lupienj@wal.hp.com


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