My '73 GTV suddenly developed a problem on the way to the track today (so much for any fun this weekend). It started up fine and idled easily in the driveway - like it always does. But just 100 yards down the road it died as I was shifting. After that I could get it to start and it would run and then the rpms would just slowly drops until dead. If I held the throttle down a bit it might stay running a bit longer but not by much. I started it about 20 times with the same results - the engine ran strong (read normal sounding) after catching and then fall off. I was able to get it back to the house by holding the throttle almost to the floor (no power at all to go up even a modest incline) and re-starting it when it died. Needless to say I had some very choice words to say to it....
It sounds very much like a gasoline supply problem but the low pressure fuel light which is on before turning the key, was off quickly after hearing the fuel pump running - the fuel pump was running all the time. My current suspect is water in the gas but I thought that water would prevent it from starting easily which isn't the case. And it drove nicely yesterday afternoon on the same tank of gas. Any ideas where I should investigate? If I can get it fixed by Sat. I can drive up to Summit Point on Sunday to get at least one day of track time this year. Bruce -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
