Hey everyone,
so i am driving my car for about an hour and it starts chugging like crazy then dies. using a basic troubleshooting guide i realize that the spark condenser is bad. we have that fixed now. The carb just got back from a company that cleaned/rebuilt/tuned it. we put the carb on the car and fine tuned it to our application and area of the country. the car idles perfect the engine is brand new. I took the car out for a test drive and now it acts almost as if i am towing a heavy trailer with the wrong size hitch. that is the best way i can describe it. while trying to maintain a speed the car lightly chugs a bit. it only does it while the gas is lightly depressed to maintain speed or accelerate slowly. with the throttle open halfway it doesn't do it so much.
with a (should be) perfect carb/ignition(all replaced and reset)/engine what else could be the problem. i only have a few ideas, but i want some more opinions with the matter.
the ideas i have is that the original generator might finally be on its last leg as the lights will dim slightly while trying to maintain speed, the only thing is that they stay bright while just coasting and the problem doesn't exist while coasting.
my dad seems to think that there is too much play in the drivetrain somewhere and it is causing it to act like this, but unless my mind is miscalibrated, it feels as though it is coming strictly from the engine.
Thanks for any ideas. i really just want to feel like i can trust the car and after all the times it has died on me, i think that this might be the last thing for me to trust it on a 3 hour trip to omaha.
so i am driving my car for about an hour and it starts chugging like crazy then dies. using a basic troubleshooting guide i realize that the spark condenser is bad. we have that fixed now. The carb just got back from a company that cleaned/rebuilt/tuned it. we put the carb on the car and fine tuned it to our application and area of the country. the car idles perfect the engine is brand new. I took the car out for a test drive and now it acts almost as if i am towing a heavy trailer with the wrong size hitch. that is the best way i can describe it. while trying to maintain a speed the car lightly chugs a bit. it only does it while the gas is lightly depressed to maintain speed or accelerate slowly. with the throttle open halfway it doesn't do it so much.
with a (should be) perfect carb/ignition(all replaced and reset)/engine what else could be the problem. i only have a few ideas, but i want some more opinions with the matter.
the ideas i have is that the original generator might finally be on its last leg as the lights will dim slightly while trying to maintain speed, the only thing is that they stay bright while just coasting and the problem doesn't exist while coasting.
my dad seems to think that there is too much play in the drivetrain somewhere and it is causing it to act like this, but unless my mind is miscalibrated, it feels as though it is coming strictly from the engine.
Thanks for any ideas. i really just want to feel like i can trust the car and after all the times it has died on me, i think that this might be the last thing for me to trust it on a 3 hour trip to omaha.