[T3] Perplexing hesitation/stumble/stall

John L. Morgan IV emailjohnmorgan at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 10:46:11 PST 2012


I had the same issue...one of the wires to one of my injectors was
frayed...worth a check.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Norman Roush <naroush at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> My '68 Sqbk with stock FI and MT is driving me crazy with an intermittent
> hesitation/stall.  It will start and idle OK.   Halfway into my 20 min
> commute it often feels like it is missing on 1 or 2 cylinders. Sometimes it
> bucks like engine quit then starts again immediately and sometimes  it
> stops altogether.   After it stops I check all the connections on engine
> and have gotten it running every time.  Sometimes I pressed the accelerator
> peddle all the way to the floor to get it going.  It doesn't seem to be bad
> gas or water in gas as it runs well most of the time.  It seems to be heat
> related.  I had it running last night and wiggled all connections in engine
> bay I could see but no hesitation, no stall.  This morning it was stumbling
> again.   Any ideas?
>
> TIA,
> Norman
>
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