Alicia Laris wrote:
>
> After taking our 67SV Alpine on various short jaunts, we decided to take a
> trip of appx. 160 miles. The car was running fine, alas we only had 2 gal
> of gas and stopped at a gas station...and filled up. Even made sure we put
> in the additive. After driving about 2-3 miles the car started to cut out.
> Giving it more gas made it worse, if we let up on the accelerator it
> seemed to smooth out...Problem is now were doing 35 in a 55. It
> straightened up and ran the next 60 miles...no prob..thought it had cleared
> up..........WRONG It ran sporadically the next 10-15 miles to our
> destination. No one was home 8-( So we let the car cool of..it was
> running around 190-195. Heading home it got progressively worse. Thinking
> that it might be vapor lock(it was high 80's that day) we stopped at a rest
> area and let it cool down to 130. Left there...no better, every time we
> went up a hill(impossible not to do in upstate NY) it cut out bad and we
> had to drive on the shoulder of the highway in 65mph traffic. The last 2-3
> miles home are all uphill, by now we are down to 2nd gear and crossing our
> fingers and toes. Last 2/10 mi was accomplished in 1st, AHH...we pulled
> in the driveway, our LBC had gotten us home. Now to look under the
> hood,next morning go out test drive the car up the hill....no problems at
> all. Sediment bowl on the fuel pump was clean. Was this just a bad
> dream.... we are baffeled???????? HELP!!!!!!!!!
>
> Alicia & Dan
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I had this problem years ago on my Series V also. I had just re-built
the carbs and put a newly rebuilt distributor for better timing on my
igntion spark. To top it off I put a shiny new chrome inline gas filter
that had a glass tube you could see thru. It looked very nice but after
running on the freeway at 60-70 MPH the car started sputtering. My first
thought was distributor, then carbs. I noticed that if I slowed down the
car would run fine then I would speed up again and a few seconds later,
it would start missing again. After getting home and checking
everything, I found out that the inline filter was too restrictive and
not allowing the fuel to flow at the rate required to fill the carbs at
freeway speeds. I got rid of that $15.00 filter and bought a little $.89
plastic one for a VW and the car has not had that problem again. It
sounds like you might be having the same type of problem. The engine
might be starving for fuel. Check your fuel filter and your fuel pump.
Also check the inlet line to you fuel pump to make sure it is not
restricted. One of my friends had rust from the tanks in his fuel line
and had to remove both tanks and have them boiled out.
Hope you find it,
Sergio 'AJNT 86" - just need to pass smog
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