Stalling on the Freeway

[desinor at sympatico.ca (Jean-Claude Désinor)]

  Hmmmm ....
  Mine did that to me too a few years back. Turned out to be junk in the 
gas tank. The filler pipe had rusted and was flaking into the tank. 
Furtunately, the gas filter stopped most of it.
  Had the gas tank cleaned and replaced the gas filter, salvaged a 
filler neck from a parts car me and my godson were sharing, and 
everything is fine now.

    Jean-Claude

julie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a ?crit :
> Sounds like the fuel pump to me. Draco did that a few yeasr ago. I just BARELY made it ove to GAP that day. I changed the pump on the side of the road and had a smooth ride home...
> Good luck 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Foxx (in a box) [mailto:foxxinabox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Friday, October 5, 2007 06:58 PM
>> To: 'Marc Getty'
>> Cc: ''scirocco list''
>> Subject: Re: Stalling on the Freeway
>>
>> The starter was turning fine. It was actually how I was able to get 
>> the car to the side of the road. It's just that the engine would turn 
>> over and over and not catch. I sat for a half on the side of the road 
>> and the car started up, got me a few hundred yards, and died again. No 
>> amount of revving the engine was able to bring it back. I finally got it 
>> off the interstate and parked it in a lot, let it sit for two hours, and 
>> when I went back, the outside air was much cooler and the car wanted to 
>> run like a scalded cat.
>>
>>     
>>> It's not clear if the starter was turning and it just not catching or was
>>> the starter not turning. Which one is it?
>>>
>>> -Marc
>>>
>>>
>>> Having to sit in traffic for nearly an hour today the '85 began to
>>> stumble and then died. As the traffic was due to an accident ahead, the
>>> whole interstate was closed. I tried to start the car and it coughed a
>>> couple times but nothing else. The coolant temp never even got about half
>>> way. On a whim I yanked the fuse to the fuel pump and let the car dry itself
>>> out. After a few more minutes of coughing it finally caught and I was able
>>> to go again. Problem is that when I came to a stop the car died again and
>>> resumed it's non-starting issue. Mind you, the weather was quite warm today
>>> and I don't have these stumbling problems in cooler weather. What could the
>>> outside temperature be affecting so that the car would run rich to a fault?
>>>       
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