Re: more info on my travelall :)

[Luke Nelson <lnelson@domain.elided>]

Yeah :)

at first I was thinkingthat I did get some bad gas, cause of it getting
worse as time went, so what I did is I filled up a gas can and drove the
travelall toward wyoming till I ran out (I found out just how inaccurate
that guage is I almost made it :)

But then I put my new gas in and it stilla acted up - but I didn't replace
the fuel filter (couldn't find one, but on thinking I bet I could jsut
pull it off and find one that will work)

Thanks for the info.
Luke



> On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 02:26:37 -0700 (MST), Luke Nelson <lnelson@domain.elided>
> wrote:
> 
> >I wanted to add that this problem showed up a few days ago, then got worse
> >over a corse of about 3 days.  AND!!!!!!  i was thinking it was flooding
> >out, so I pulled off the air cleaner cover and drove it like that for a
> >little and it ran EVEN worse.  I think I will just shoot it (it already
> >has a bullet hole through the hood :)
> 
> Luke,
> 
> Have you taken a fuel sample?
> 
> If the problem occurred suddenly, you may have purchased a tank of fuel
> with some degree of water in it.  This can lead to some of the symptoms you
> describe... a lean running low power condition.  I've had this happen
> before in my younger days and immediately thought it was my fuel pump.  As
> I disconnected the fuel lines I noticed the gas pouring out looked more
> like orange juice than gasoline.
> 
> If you find this is the case, add a couple of bottles of gas drier (usually
> an alcohol blend to assimilate the water) and top off with good gasoline.
> Run the tank until almost completely empty then change your fuel filter and
> fill up with more fresh gas and maybe one more can of gas drier.
> 
> Just a thought... don't give up.
> 
> Merry Christmas,
> 
> John 
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