<div dir="auto">Drain your gas tank through a cotton T shirt. You might have crud obstructing your fuel flow? <br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Eugene, Oregon<br><br><a href="http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u236/mr_bojangles500/" target="_blank">http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u236/mr_bojangles500/</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 3:23 PM Jeff Palmer <<a href="mailto:w.jeff.palmer@icloud.com">w.jeff.palmer@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Happy Labour Day everyone!<br>
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69 notchback, fuel injected, automatic transmission. It sat for 20 years and my friend/neighbour/mechanic have been getting things going since last spring. <br>
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It had been running more or less ok this year and we were fixing the little things like turn signals, speedometer, etc. About two months ago it started losing power when warm. After about ten-fifteen minutes of driving the accelerator stopped responding in forward and reverse. About the same time the transmission started slipping out of gear. I would be driving along in third and it would slip into second. To start it I would have to wiggle the gearshift with the ignition in the start position for it to catch the right spot and start. My friend dropped the transmission and cleaned it up (not a full rebuild) and after a drive yesterday it starts properly and shifts better than ever. But still loses power when warm. He’s out of ideas and I’m better at driving than fixing. He’s convinced it’s a transmission problem and I think it’s a fuel injection problem (everything I know I’ve learned from Car Talk!)<br>
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Only other significant problem I can think of right now is an intermittent problem with the relay under the dash (fuel pump? Fuel injection?)The fuel pump doesn’t always come on when starting unless you give the give the relay a tap and it doesn’t turn off after a couple of seconds when starting up. <br>
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Does anyone have any suggestions or things to check?<br>
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Thanks<br>
Jeff<br>
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