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Subject:Re: intermittent running rich issue
From:John Goubeaux
Date:Wed, 7 Dec 2016 10:07:13 -0800

Thanks, Since I've recently replaced the fuel tank, all the hoses and
grommets and lines and FP I'm gonna assume, unless i have bad fuel, that
the fuel supply is not the issue.

I'm wondering though if the fuel pressure regulator can be intermittent
? OR if it just goes all at once ? My understanding is that when it goes
the engine will run very rich as a result of the increase in pressure.

On 12/7/16 9:41 AM, Don Hanson wrote:
>
> Water in the gas tank?   Just did that... the expansion tank rubber
> grommets on my 84 were useless, and those expansion tanks are
> perfectly positioned in the wheel wells to collect water on their flat
> tops, with tubes to take that collected water back into the main tank.
>     I surmised that as long as you're moving and the engine is
> running, the water in the gas is all mixed up and doesn't hurt the
> running but when you shut down for a while, the water that was in
> solution with the gas settles out, then when you start again, you get
> mostly water to run the motor..
>   I don't know if mine "seemed" to "show" rich symptoms, but bad gas
> and rich are similar in manifested symptoms...
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2016 8:51 AM, "John Goubeaux" <john@ucsb.edu
> <mailto:john@ucsb.edu>> wrote:
>
>     In my case I've already replaced both the AFM and TB with rebuilt ones
>     and had them adjusted, so I'm gonna rule them out BUT know they
>     can add
>     to bad running issues.
>
>     -john
>
>
>     On 12/7/16 8:46 AM, Dan N wrote:
>
>         also...it could be a worn throttle body or a faulty throttle
>         body switch
>