new car woes

["Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>]

picked-up the new '87 GT yesterday and it's pretty solid & runs well, only 
74,000 miles, and virtually rust-free. All in all, pretty good for £150GBP.
One real pain-in-the-ass problem though - it keeps cutting out. Appears to 
be fuel starvation - it's a carburated 1.6 engine with 2E2 carburettor - as 
it will run for a mile or so and then stutter before cutting-out. Give it 30 
seconds or so and it'll start again. I noticed that when the tank was down 
at 1/4 full there was quite a lot of bubbling in the fuel feed & return 
lines at idle and when it was revved, not so much when I filled the tank.  
The tank has been cleaned by the PO and has a new fuel pump, filler neck and 
AFAIK, most of the flex fuel hoses replaced. I presume it has a new fuel 
filter as well - looks clean enough. I've checked the hard lines running 
under the car and there are no kinks so I'm assuming that theres either an 
obstruction in the tank pick-up or in the hard line.  Checked the warm-air 
inlet in case it was carb icing but the flap was stuck with the hot-air flap 
fully open - I've moved it to 1/2 way but no difference,as expected.
Any of you guys running carbed engines care to comment on possible causes?

TIA,

Ewan Hopkins


Ewan Hopkins...

'85 Storm 2.0
'86 GT 1.8
'87 GT 1.6

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