Interesting, and a possibility. Given that it happened only once, there's a chance it got hung up on something. Worth inspecting all of the linkages closely.
bs Sent from my iPad On May 10, 2011, at 8:04 AM, Bruce Giller <[email protected]> wrote: > I stopped by my local Alfa mech. (Julio at Milano Motors, Md) and he thought > the culprit was the FI's fuel cutoff solenoid and the microswitch. When the > solenoid is activated, the car will idle but there isn't any fuel for > acceleration. He believes that the microswitch has become maladjusted > (capricious, unstable, etc) and it switches on at the > most inopportune times. To access the switch, you need to remove the FI > pump from the car which can be a tedious job. > > So the next time this happens, I'll pull the wire off the top of the > solenoid (at least that is easy to access!) and see if power is restored. > If it is the switch, I'll leave the wire unattached until I find the time > to remove the FI pump. > > Bruce > > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Bruce Giller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yesterday I experienced a very strange occurrence of loss of power whilst >> driving my '73 GTV. I had just accelerated kinda hard, then let up on the >> gas as I quickly approached the car in front of me. As the car in front >> turned off the road, I tried to accelerate but nothing happened. The engine >> did not rev at all but was still running. The low fuel pressure light did >> not light up. Even if I floored the pedal, there was just no power. >> >> I pulled over into a parking lot and stopped. The engine was idling when >> stopped. I opened the hood, pulled on the plug wires, did not smell gas >> (from a spilt SPICA hard line) - just didn't see/hear/smell anything that >> would cause the problem. I then tried to rev the engine from under the >> hood - it immediately died. I then restarted the car and the power was back >> ... as if by magick ! It ran perfectly for the trip home - about 20 >> minutes. It ran perfectly this morning on a run to the auto parts store. >> >> I was thinking that there was a blockage might be in the exhaust but that >> wouldn't clear up by itself. >> >> The low pressure fuel light does work for it shines briefly when starting >> the car. It has a Wes I. Hi-output SPICA pump. RML ignition module and >> Bosch distributor - maybe the RML electronics is going bad and >> fails intermittently, >> >> Any other ideas ?? >> >> Thanks, >> Bruce > -- > to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi > or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
