outsider
07-20-2005, 05:05:00 AM
Okay so heres how the story goes:
I put on a new set of headers myself. I take the car to the muffler shop (drive it, open headers). The shop welds up some pipe between the 2 ft. gap between the pipes and headers. $90 bucks. Okay. I drive it to work (right down the street). I go to leave work and I get about 200 ft. and it dies. Hummm. The gas gauge was low, but I knew it had a little. I get some gas and pur it in. Nothing. Turning over, runnning rough for a second or two and then dies. The more I try the worse it gets. Then it wont start at all. I pur a little gas in the carb and try again. It starts, and as long as I'm pouring gas in the carb it runs. Like crap, but it runs. Okay so I have a fuel problem.
I take off the fuel line before the filter and have my friend crank it. No gas comes out. So its one of 3 things: the filter sucked up a lot of sediment from the car running out of gas; the fuel pump is shot; or the shop melted my fuel cable when they welded the pipes. I know it ran because I drove it to the shop. I know it ran at the shop for the mechanics, and it ran for a bit coming home and then died. So now my car is in a parking lot with a dead battery, half a tank of gas, and something messed up in the fuel delivery somewhere.
Any ides or suggestions? I'm thinking about getting it towed to a shop and having them fix it since I also had a problem with shorting out and the battery not holding a charge and although I think I might have fixed it, they can check itout for me. I don't want to spend an arm and a leg.
Please help a kid out.
I put on a new set of headers myself. I take the car to the muffler shop (drive it, open headers). The shop welds up some pipe between the 2 ft. gap between the pipes and headers. $90 bucks. Okay. I drive it to work (right down the street). I go to leave work and I get about 200 ft. and it dies. Hummm. The gas gauge was low, but I knew it had a little. I get some gas and pur it in. Nothing. Turning over, runnning rough for a second or two and then dies. The more I try the worse it gets. Then it wont start at all. I pur a little gas in the carb and try again. It starts, and as long as I'm pouring gas in the carb it runs. Like crap, but it runs. Okay so I have a fuel problem.
I take off the fuel line before the filter and have my friend crank it. No gas comes out. So its one of 3 things: the filter sucked up a lot of sediment from the car running out of gas; the fuel pump is shot; or the shop melted my fuel cable when they welded the pipes. I know it ran because I drove it to the shop. I know it ran at the shop for the mechanics, and it ran for a bit coming home and then died. So now my car is in a parking lot with a dead battery, half a tank of gas, and something messed up in the fuel delivery somewhere.
Any ides or suggestions? I'm thinking about getting it towed to a shop and having them fix it since I also had a problem with shorting out and the battery not holding a charge and although I think I might have fixed it, they can check itout for me. I don't want to spend an arm and a leg.
Please help a kid out.