As the title explains, I was making a left U-Turn and I lost fuel for a split second and the car just bucked like mad. I've heard of this before when making semi-hard lefts on 1/4 tank or less, but I had about 2/3 a tank of gas. My car has 60k miles on it. I haven't changed the fuel filter yet. Perhaps I'm answering my own question... What else should be checked?

 

my car does the same with anything under a full tank and both filters are less then 5 months old.

 

Wouldn't hurt to check your in-tank filter, especially if you've dumped some injector cleaner in there lately, or started premixing...

 

Yep... should have seen mine when I took it out. Looked like somebody took about 5 lbs of sand and rust and **** and dumped it into my tank. Definately check that sock around the pump... takes LESS than 10 minutes to yank the pump out.

 

Sory...this is sort of out of topic but Starcraft rocks!

 

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Anyway, I haven't premixed or used any cleaners. But I will check my FSM and see if I can get the pump out tomorrow. Any special way to clean it?

 

If it's original equipment, might as well get a new one and do it right. They can be a bugger to clean properly...Mine got so bad I had to cut a hole in the side of it with an exacto knife (still need to change that sucker one of these days, lol)

 

Well it appears I don't have the tools do really tackle this alone and I'm kind of skeptical of depressurizing fuel and disconnecting hoses in my driveway. Some day I will get this done though.

 

Man sounds like the same thing my 2001 Mercury Cougar used to do and i took it in and it was a recall on the fuel pump, it would just like buckle real bad but that another car, But i dont have to worry about that nemore because the Cougar is long gone and im looking at a 90 GXL baby!!!

 

if it cuts fuel during a left turn its usually the fuel pump sock, mine was doing the exact same thing, put a new fuel pump sock/filter on the bottom of the pump, worked like a charm

 

Clean your IN-TANK fuel filter sock.

 

Don't have the tools?

It's like 6 10 mm bolts, and a phillips screw driver.

About "de-pressurising" the lines... let it sit for a few hours or so after its been started (or overnight, whatever) and just take a couple rags, and rap it around the hose... its not that much fuel really.

 

Guys, the fuel sock, the boxy one, is a peice of crap. It is so tall that the fuel pump starts sucking air when anywhere below full. If you get the flat pancake shaped sock, that eliminates your problems.

Trust me!!!

 

Or, when you rip the fuel line off have a big phillips screw driver ready to ram on the fuel line to plug it. That's what i did and i was only minimally sprayed with fuel

Left turn=no fuel is a sure sign that the in tank filter is clogged.

It seems to be that the pancake shaped sock would get clocked faster then the box.

 

i dont have any problems with the big box one, i had an 86 base that had one about 1/4 of the size of the big *** box one, but said mazda on it, so it was a stock one, dont know why it was smaller

 

I will try this tomorrow then. I got a second opinion from Joe at smoking joe racing (long island) and he said it could also be a connection between the ECU and battery.