Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:32:19 -0500
Reply-To: Kenneth D Lewis <kdlewis@JUNO.COM>
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From: Kenneth D Lewis <kdlewis@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Help Doctor's, My baby is sick!
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Joe:
After checking the aforementioned possibilities I might get out
the timing light to see if any clues are revealed there. Is it advancing
properly? Next I would try and verify proper fuel pressure. A vacuum
leak would affect both of these so recheck the hoses. You may have to
move some things around to check the spaghetti around the cold start
valve(at least think that is what it is called).
Good Luck and Drive Safely
Ken Lewis
86 Crewcab,60 356
http://Neksiwel.20m.com/
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:28:59 -0500 Joe <mejoe@EMAIL.TOAST.NET> writes:
> After operating normally for the longest time my trusty old
> 83.5 Westy
> (Water Cooled) is suddenly sick. I was going on a short trip and
> was just
> pulling away from the curb and accelerating through the gears when,
> without
> warning, the engine bogged down and quit. Thankfully it quit at the
> end of
> my block so no tow was needed but I did have to push it back to the
> front
> of my house because it simply refused to start.
>
> The next day I went out to try to see what was wrong. The
> first thing I did
> was crank it over, it started right off. With the transmission in
> neutral I
> worked the gas pedal to see if I could detect anything unusual in
> the way
> the engine sounded or ran. There was some new "bogging down" or
> "stumbling"
> at the very beginning of the throttle travel just above idle. This
> "bogging
> down" did not occur every time but often enough to let me know that
> it was
> not a "fluke" and that "something", "somewhere" was wrong with my
> baby.
>
> With the engine running I took a quick look in the engine
> compartment to
> see if there was anything obviously wrong like a disconnected
> vacuum line.
> It was just a quick once-over but I saw nothing.
>
> At this point the engine had been running for about 15
> minutes and, except
> for the abov
> e mentioned "stumbling" was running fine. I decided to take it out
> for a
> short drive to see if anything had changed when the engine was
> under load.
> Pulling out from the curb, as soon as I put it in second the engine
> "bogged
> down" and quit. While coasting to the side of the road I tried a
> restart.
> It started, ran rough for a couple of seconds and again quit. I
> tried a few
> restarts but during these the engine refused to start at all.
>
> I sat on the side of the road for maybe 5 minutes working up
> the ambition
> to push it back to the house. Just before climbing out and pushing I
> tried
> one last time to start it. It fired up fine. I drove it to the end
> of the
> block to turn around and head for the driveway while I still could.
> During
> this 50 yard trip it ran without complaint so I decided to push my
> luck and
> drove it up and down the block a few times. All seemed fine.
>
> Pulling back into the driveway I put it in neutral and
> worked the gas pedal
> as before. That same occasional "stumbling" showed up. I went into
> the
> engine compartment and worked the throttle by hand. Doing this I got
> the
> same "normally ok but occasional stumbling just above idle" I got
> from the
> driver's seat. **ONE TIME** during one of these "stumbles" there
> was a
> single muffled "backfire" that seemingly came from the area of the
> air
> filter (front right of engine).
>
> Further messing around as above yealded no further symptoms
> so it seems my
> baby is not going to tell me anything more about where it hurts
> until I can
> get some advice from the good folks on the list as to what I should
> do or
> look at next.
>
> Any hints/help/advice from the list Doctor's is MUCH
> appreciated.
>
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