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From: marauder@fluke.UUCP (Bill Landsborough)
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: HELP!!  What's wrong with my car??
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 10:42:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 10:42:32 1985
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In article <558@petfe.UUCP> bobp@petfe.UUCP (Dan Masi) writes:
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>My car recently developed the following symptom:  
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>Under large load, the engine "cuts out".  When I'm accelerating,
>or going up a steep hill, or any time that the accelerator is almost
>fully depressed, after a few seconds the car will lurch as though the
>ignition system was cut off for 1/4 second.  If I back off of the
>accelerator, the problem stops; if I keep the pedal depressed, the engine
>will come back, then cut out again, then come back on, etc.  
>Dan Masi     (201) 758-7127

Your car is "running out of gas", not in the gas tank but in the carb or
injection system.  The reason it is running out of gas is usually a cheap
fix; replace the fuel filter.  
   If that doesn't do the trick then look to fuel pump or a blockage in
the fuel line or in the float bowl but 90% of the time its the filter.

Bill Landsborough