Depending on the age of your fuel tank, and if you had a lot of crud
in the filter, I'd throw that in the mix too.

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've written a few times over the last week about my poor running 2.1.
>
> First, it would stumble and die after starting. Replaced temp 2,
> replaced AFM. Much better. Ran deceivingly well for miles, but when
> asked to pull a hill, I had to back off on the throttle and crawl up.
> Any demand for fuel resulted in a loss of power that could only be
> recovered from by lowering the demand by backing off on the pedal.
>
> Sounds like fuel to me.
>
> Today I installed a new gas filter. I examined what came out of the
> old one, it looked to be half gas and half water. It doesn't run like
> there is a bunch of water in the fuel; it runs like it isn't getting
> enough fuel for the demands of acceleration and hills.
>
> Which sounds like a fuel pump. It's pretty loud, and maybe it can only
> keep up with low fuel demand.
>
> It has also popped its third coolant tank in two years, but that's
> another matter.
>
> Other than the pump, anything else I should look at?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim