For the love of God, someone PLEASE help me!!

[Fordverde]

Take a look at the master cilinder if it is not losing fluid and the vaccum hose of the boster is sucking it to the engine

[rpickle]

Well, heres the latest: Pulled carb, stripped and soaked individual sections in Berrymans. Came out clean as a whistle. Reassembled with new rebuild kit. Cranked it over until it started. No improvement. Sputters, misses and will not even come close to idling. So, I thought maybe the belt has a bad spot, or it jumped a tooth. Took timing belt cover off and marks are spot on.

I am at a loss. Throwing more money at it is beginning to cramp my marriage...... Some of the itmes replaced needed it, but....

Does anyone know if the carbed cars will run with the abc valve unplugged and/or the other 3 items that join in one rectangular connector?

Argh.....


Rick

[Tom]

Battery cables can do this. The coil can do this. The distributer cap can do this. Try loosening your gas cap. Vapor lock can do this. I'm sure you changed your fuel filter. The fuel pump can do this. Your ground wires can do this.

[rpickle]

Tom,

I just had the battery cables off. They are clean and tight at the battery. I have tried running it with the gas cap off, no luck. I have the 2nd fuel pump installed. It has had a new cap, rotor, wires and plugs installed, albeit several months ago. I have not changes the coil and the distributor. Would prefer to get these items used, at least to verify whether they will fix the problem or not...

Appreciate the help, ALOT.

Rick

[rpickle]

Would a plugged cat do this?

Just wonderin'.

Rick

[Tom]

No, a plugged cat shouldn't do this although a totally plugged exhaust would but that never happens. The coil can do this, just take one off from another car, there all the same. The fuel filter will definitly do this. A leak in the fuel line will do this or a bad connection(sucks air). Your ground wire where it hooks to the motor or frame can do this. The Vacumme advance being bad or the hoses to it(on distributer) can do this. The ground from the motor to your body will do this some times but rarely.

[rpickle]

Tom

Really appreciate your help. I'll look at the grounds this week, as time permits. Will have to track down a coil. Would love to swap the coil and distributor.

Rick

[Tom]

I would take the fuel filter off and change it or at least blow it out. With it off at the fuel pump and off at the feed line from the tank you could blow on it. A quick fix would be to leave it on and release your gas fuel cap and then take the line off at the fuel pump and then blow with your mouth hard enough to hear and feel bubbles in the fuel tank. If I remember right you had debree at the fuel feed line in the tank and this was "after" you changed the fuel filter. That means that your new fuel filter may have gotten contaminated.

[Tom]

Mine did the same old thing again today. I worked on it for four hours. I changed the Oxygen Sensor, it didn't help. I would only idle and if I stepped on the gas it would cough and die. I never did figure it out but here is what I did. With the motor idling I unhooked the vacumme lines from the vacumme advance on the distributer, it idled even rougher and wouldn't let me rev at all, I put them back on. Still the same, it wouldn't let me give it gas, it would die. I unhooked the air line from the PVC valve, it immediatly died. It seemed to be even idling rougher. I set the idle up with the plastic hand screw on the carborater on the passenger side, I set it up quite a bit, a fast ilde. I can now carefully drive it that way with the fast idle and it won't kill or die if I am careful. I'm going to drive it this way for a week or two.

[Tom]

rpickle

Look at the "Vacumme" sticky "Pinned" at he top on this forum repair help we are on. Also the bottom post on that thread and its pages. This may help solve both of our problems as well as a lot of future problems with these cars we have now and a lot of other cars we will have in the future. It's a great thread, that's why it's a "Sticky", I bet you money it will help solve one or both of our problems.