When out driveing my baby today , i stopped at a buddys house for approx 30-45 mins upon starting the car up, and leaveing, turning onto the main road and accelerating, i seemed to hit a dead spot, it just died down and cam to a slow crawl seemed as if it wasnt getting any fuel, all i could hear was the carb sucking air. So i pumped her a little and she came outta this dead spot so to say.
Well it did that 2 more times this evening, one while it sat running for a min or 2 another time while sitting for an hour. I went to take off got about 20 yards was running fine then it hit. I actually had to pull off the road this time because i was slowing traffic down, it was like she wanted to accelerate but couldnt.
In attempt to describe the problem further ill say this.
It never completely dies out seems as if its just chugging for a second coughing on something.I goto give it gas it feels like your flooding a engine while running, almost like its getting to much gas or none at all, and makeing that starveing "sucking noise". The car seems to lurch and dive a little and the more you feather the pedal the weirder it gets. But only for about 5-10 seconds then wham shes back to normal and screaming down the road...
Im assumeing its a fueling issue being that i could hear the carb sucking and the tranny seemed to respond to me gassing it by kicking down but the car went no where.
Also this car has a exhaust manifold leak, maybe this is contributing im not sure. All feedback is very well appreciated. (sorry for the lengthy post trying to be as descriptive as i can)
62 Lark Hardtop, 289 v8 stude power.
Well it did that 2 more times this evening, one while it sat running for a min or 2 another time while sitting for an hour. I went to take off got about 20 yards was running fine then it hit. I actually had to pull off the road this time because i was slowing traffic down, it was like she wanted to accelerate but couldnt.
In attempt to describe the problem further ill say this.
It never completely dies out seems as if its just chugging for a second coughing on something.I goto give it gas it feels like your flooding a engine while running, almost like its getting to much gas or none at all, and makeing that starveing "sucking noise". The car seems to lurch and dive a little and the more you feather the pedal the weirder it gets. But only for about 5-10 seconds then wham shes back to normal and screaming down the road...
Im assumeing its a fueling issue being that i could hear the carb sucking and the tranny seemed to respond to me gassing it by kicking down but the car went no where.
Also this car has a exhaust manifold leak, maybe this is contributing im not sure. All feedback is very well appreciated. (sorry for the lengthy post trying to be as descriptive as i can)
62 Lark Hardtop, 289 v8 stude power.
just may be your problem.
Hope this helps.
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