introducing catstiva

[BigElCat]

You say the car died while driving down the road and would not restart. This doesn't sound like a worn out carb. What have you tried? New filter? Does the pump push gas out?

[muddevil01]

No that is my 91 that died going down the road this one coughs and sputters if you give it more than half throttle I'm sure it needs a carb you don't happen to have one laying around do you ?

[BigElCat]

Well...yeah...I do. I pulled a complete B3 carby engine that was a known good runner. I sorta had plans for it. But...I'll PM you with my phone number.

[BigElCat]

Izzit running? We worked on Catstiva yesterday. Me thinks we got it fixed.

[muddevil01]

No it's not I think that the carb is still the issue it will start now but barely so I don't know what's up with it

[Flw Sock]

No that is my 91 that died going down the road this one coughs and sputters if you give it more than half throttle I'm sure it needs a carb you don't happen to have one laying around do you ?

Before you try anything super extreme, try replacing your plugs and wires. I had the same problem on my Ranger, and my Honda. Replacing plugs and wires did the trick, I would try that first as it's a lot cheaper.

[Safety Guy]

Also check the fuel filter! My '89L had problems running and I told a shop to check the fuel filter, which I thought they had.

They hadn't. Years later, when I cut the front end off of old Muttstiva, I removed the ORIGINAL FUEL FILTER, dated 1989.

That's only one reason I do work myself now.

Karl

[BigElCat]

It has a new filter, doesn't it? Plugs and wires are a good suggestion.

We swapped carbs, then discovered the dizzy had a bad vac diaphragm. A second used distributer also had a bad diaphragm. I sold Justin a used dizzy with a good diaphragm.

I have the cap and wires from the dizzy that I sold him. Also, I think my spare B3 has new plugs. We could try these. After that we could try a different carb and intake, off my spare B3. I know my spare B3 was running when I pulled it, about 9 months ago.

[muddevil01]

I put new plugs cap and rotor on it when I put the new dizzy on

[BigElCat]

We know it's getting some amount of spark at the plugs.

What condition are the plugs in?

We could try a different a different set of plug wires. Try a different coil?

I'm going to try an up-grade coil on Festus, even though the stock one is working. If my 'new' coil works, we could put my stock one on Catstiva just to be sure.

I have an extra set of plug wires we could try. I'll go ahead and try my coil swap tonight.

[muddevil01]

Spark plugs are brand new as are the cap and rotor

[BigElCat]

Doh...

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I guess you said that already.

I changed my coil tonite...new coil improved my performance, but we know the old one works if you want it.

I guess I could loan you my carb/intake combo, just to see if it would fix the problem. We could swap it this weekend(?)