Re: Low Fuel Pressure Light

["Paul Irvine" <pi@crl.com>]

Herb Spitz wrote:

>Here's a question for all you mechanical wizards:  Why is my car doing
>this? (Description of phenomenom below):
>The last couple of days I have noticed my car's engine hesitating on hard
>cornering, something that does not typically occur (the hesitation, not
>the hard cornering ;-) ).  Today, when the same hesitation occurred, the
>low fuel pressure light flashed on (No, I'm not out of gas, there's over
>half a tank in the car).
>What's causing this?  My first thought is that the rear fuel filter is
>getting clogged (it probably needs replacement), but why the loss of fuel
>pressure in the corners?  Is the loss of hydrostatic pressure in the tank
>on cornering starving the fuel pickup?  I haven't seen this happen before.

Herb - You are guilty of deep analysis of what is most likely a common and
simple problem, that being - it's time to change your fuel filters. My
advice would be to change the filters before lying awake at night pondering
the effects of the loss of hydrostatic pressure in the fuel tank.

Not to be critical here. I have many stories about how I have done the very
same thing. Once when my Spider was running badly I bought new filters, new
fuel pump, points, plugs, rotor, distributor cap and coil before replacing
the sixty seven cent piece of old fuel line that had a crack in it.

Paul Irvine  - Antioch CA
72 Spider - 79 Sprint Veloce - 82 GTV6
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