One other thing: low power after the long dormancy

Matt McCrary mattmccrary at gmail.com
Wed May 4 14:15:12 EDT 2016


fuel filter. :)
On Apr 3, 2016 10:35 PM, "David Pertuz" <d.pertuz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mind you, I've only driven the car about five miles right now.
>
> It is obviously low on power - I was briefly on the freeway and I got up
> to about 45, but the car was not running well. Felt like it had about 50%
> power. Starts up normally, idles fine (smothly), though it is really rough
> (there is a lot of shake, by the look of the shifter. Exhaust, aside from
> obviously being very loud since it's open, is unusually percussive. I'd say
> it feels like it's running on three cylinders, so maybe I will check the
> spark when I get it back. It's got old gas in it, but I did put a couple of
> gallons of fresh gas in it before starting it up. Is there anything obvious
> I'm not thinking of that might have caused this? Car ran perfectly (well,
> except for the ticking bearings) when I took it off the road years ago.
>
> I'll drive it back home this week if they finish it before I leave for a
> trip on Wednesday, but I won't have time to diagnose this until at least
> next week.
>
> David
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
> The mailing list home page is http://www.se-r-list.org/
> To modify your subscription, go to
> http://www.se-r-list.org/mailman/listinfo/se-r
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://se-r-list.org/pipermail/se-r/attachments/20160504/beb1ff7f/attachment.html>


More information about the se-r mailing list