got my @zz whuuped today.

[clutchdust]

got my little datsun "running" again today. it was really struggling at first and only seemed like it was running on one carburator (3 cylinders). i kept it going and it seemed to finally clear the other carb. since i had no tools at the house i decided to drive it over to my shop, about 2 miles away.

see where this is going?

anyway, once it cleared i thought everything should be pretty good since i had it tuned before i parked it a couple months ago. i figure i just blow the carbs out and i'm golden. right? right.

i made the first mile sorta o.k. and then it started to just run flat. i had the pedal floored but i kept slowing down. finally it just stalled. i restarted it and made another 100 feet before it died. this went on for the next 1/2 mile or so. getting progressively worse. i couldn't figure out what the hell was going on with it so <here goes the shooting myself in the foot part> it seemed that it might be running too lean. so i fattened up the carbs. that didn't work so maybe it was actually running to rich, so i leaned them out. maybe carb timing is off so i started tweeking the idle mix screws.

i finally got it just across the street from my shop. i figured at this point, maybe i was actually out of gas because i could get it to run for just a few seconds and then it would just die. i didn't think i was out of gas as it still showed above 'E' on the gauge, but gauges have been wrong before. maybe i was sucking the bowls dry. so i walk across the street and grab my service truck, throw a can in the back and grab a couple gallons of gas.

i put the gas in and i'll be dammed but it's still not running right. so WTF?

then i think maybe, just maybe, there's something else making it look like it's running out of gas. i pull the fuel filter off and i'll be a jack@zz if the sumbich isn't dang near completely blocked.

i didn't have a spare but i did have some brake cleaner on the truck so i spray it and tap out all the chunks of crap.

funny thing is the car actually runs when it's getting fuel. now i just have to retune the carbs that i totally pharked up jumping straight to check 11.

took about 1.5 hours to drive that 2 miles.

[Zs-ondabrain]

well at least all that crap is in the filter and not the floats or worse.

Glad to hear ya figured it out.

Dave.

[DatsunZsRule]

Thats gotta be irritating when you have a problem like that and think the worst first and start messing around with other crap and find out later it was due to something as simple as Low fuel and a clogged fuel filter :laugh: At least it's nothing major and also like Dave said, at least the filter cought the majority of the "crud" and didn't make things worse.