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[T3] car woes.....


today in pennsylvania the rain came down.  all day.  lucky for me i had 
errands to run, and spent much of the day in my square.  everything was 
great.  unfortunately for me lancaster has a ton of traffic, i'm talking 
moving 20 feet then sitting for 5 minutes, 20 feet and another 5 minutes.  
like this for a few miles until you hit the city.  so anyway i'm in this 
mess, and its raining, and visibility was bad.  totally crappy weather.  i'm 
less than 3 miles from my house, but this equates to 15 minutes of start and 
stop traffic.  i'm sitting there waiting for the cars in front of me to 
start moving, they do, and i push down on the gas and let the clutch out.  
it felt like i was starting out in 3rd gear, i slammed the gas and my foot 
was off the clutch but the car barely moved, just crept a little, then 
stalled.  i tried to restart but she would not start!
luckily i was a few feet from a store entrance.  i pushed her in, let her 
sit for a bit while i checked out the engine for foul play.  after 15 
minutes or so i tried starting her up and she started.  everything seemed 
ok.  so i went to pull out into traffic again, and as soon as somebody let 
me out i hit the gas, let the clutch out, and it felt like 3rd gear again!!! 
  it stalled again, it wouldn't start again, so i pushed it back into the 
parking lot.  i got beeped at and flicked off while this was happening, i 
love people sometimes.  so i let her sit for a good half hour, she was a 
little hot.  checked the oil, it was maybe 1/4 of a quart low so i topped 
her off.  i started her up, and was on a quest to make it home.  what i did 
was slammed the gas and got the rpm's up, then let the clutch out.  i wasn't 
gonna let her stall again.  so using this method i made it home, although i 
did notice that the car jerked around a little bit when i was moving 
forward, pointing to something wrong with my gas line/throttle or 
something....
anyone have any ideas?   i'm stumped....she was running great until this...

mark
70 square fi.
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