Re: Spider bucking and kicking

[GLewis4457@domain.elided]

In a message dated 8/15/99 8:53:55 PM Central Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

> for the past month, i noticed a strange behavior in the vehicle. once it 
>  started (which sometimes took a little nursing), it ran very well until it 
>  heated up (10 minutes or so), then it'd get extremely weak. it would then 
>  start lurching like a bucking horse through the gears to a point where i 
was 
> 
>  lucky if it kept rolling.... usually if i got it up to highway speed, it 
>  could maintain the speed.... i would feel extremely relieved each time i 
>  parked it.. 
Very same thing happened to my 75 Spider.  It was the rear fuel filter. Cold 
it allowed enough fuel through to run well.  As it heats up the crap in the 
filter swells and starts to starve the engine.  A new rear filter solved the 
problem entirely. Simple to check and fix. May or may not have anything to do 
with the wet plugs.

Jerry in Houston 

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