Losing power, bucking and stalling uphill
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Losing power, bucking and stalling uphill
Hi everybody,
As stated in the title my 83 GSL has the following problem. When I'm driving up a steep hill the car starts to buck and lose power eventually stalling (even flooring the accelerator won't help once it's started). The car will always start immediatly and run well until I hit the next steep hill and the problem will happen again. This happens about 85% of the time and I've noticed it happens in 2nd gear at about 3000rpm (I don't know if this matters but it's what I've observed). I'm running a can of seafoam in the gas tank and I've cleaned the ***** out of the carb but it hasn't helped. I'm thinking the fuel filter might be clogged so I'll start there hopefully this weekend.
Do you guys have any other sugestions?
Cheers,
Luis
As stated in the title my 83 GSL has the following problem. When I'm driving up a steep hill the car starts to buck and lose power eventually stalling (even flooring the accelerator won't help once it's started). The car will always start immediatly and run well until I hit the next steep hill and the problem will happen again. This happens about 85% of the time and I've noticed it happens in 2nd gear at about 3000rpm (I don't know if this matters but it's what I've observed). I'm running a can of seafoam in the gas tank and I've cleaned the ***** out of the carb but it hasn't helped. I'm thinking the fuel filter might be clogged so I'll start there hopefully this weekend.
Do you guys have any other sugestions?
Cheers,
Luis
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My friends gsl would do the exact same thing. He had a giant hole in his gas tank and it was starved for gas on hills. Your gas tank could be rusting out and its clogged your fuel filter.
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My cat caused me to have issues when pulling hard, it started and ran fine untill you floored it or tried to press the motor in to working hard....so yes you are correct, but I still think it's the CAT.
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Thanks for the replies everybody,
I've been busy with school this last week so I haven't had a chance to change the fuel filter yet but I'll get on that this week and see what happens.
Cheers,
Luis
P.S. Slammed_GSL, I don't have enough posts to reply to your pm yet.
I've been busy with school this last week so I haven't had a chance to change the fuel filter yet but I'll get on that this week and see what happens.
Cheers,
Luis
P.S. Slammed_GSL, I don't have enough posts to reply to your pm yet.
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I just wanted to thank everybody who contributed to troubleshooting this problem. It was the fuel filter after all, the gas coming out of it was full of black sediment and there was a piece of rubber inside it no rust though (thankfully). I took it for a nice ride up a couple of hills and it runs really smooth.
Cheers,
Luis
Cheers,
Luis
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I got the one liner , I just meant I shouldn't cheer because now that the easy fix is done I get to move on to the much more tedious task of tracing a short.
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