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[T3] A-Ha!


I think I've found an answer to an annoying problem I've been having...  I
have a stock 71 Square with FI, and every morning, I have to sit and let the
motor warm up, else it completely cuts out, and I have to sit wherever I am
and wait for it to calm down, ere she'll start again.  What I mean by that
is; if I jump in Deathrich and just rip down the road first thing in the
morning, I'm almost guaranteed to have it completely die on me.  I then have
to sit and crank and crank to get her to go again, or let her sit, and then
I can start her again.  I was assuming it had something to do with the
points/condenser, and because of various reasons (and it isn't *that* much
of a hassle to sit for five minutes in the morning), I haven't really
attended to it.

Well; Sunday morning (like 2am) I noticed that the stalling off was
avertable by pumping the hell out of the gas pedal.  Almost as though it was
getting *way* too much fuel.  It would go along fine, and then start choking
up, but if I pumped madly on the gas, it would continue to run; *then*
click!   And it would run fine.  'Weird,' I thought, and tried to go on down
the road.  Click! And the car is stumbling and dying.  Pump madly, and
click!  She runs fine.

*Then* I realise that there is an audible click coming from my dashboard
coinciding perfectly with the performance of the car.  Somewhere, off in a
dark corner of my mind, I hear a tiny voice say, 'there's a fuel pump relay
under the dash, James...'

Have I hit upon it?  I'll be really happy if I have.  What do ye of my
Sistern and Brethren say?

James

71 Square, Deathrich

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