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The car is a 63 Midget with stock 10CG engine except for electric fuel pump..
We were out a few days ago with the Midget. It ran great all day while running around (about 75 miles total). Just a couple of miles from home it suddenly started bogging and making that fuel starved backfiring as if it were running very lean. Barely had the power to keep itself going. I got it home, but it was running very poorly. Idling badly and if you try to give it gas, it shudders and makes that "lean" backfiring. Pull the choke out and it runs better for a while before it bogs. Points, plugs, cap, coil have about 1000 miles on them. I did a little trouble shooting and found that the clear fuel filter under the hood was almost empty.. Ah, says I, it must be the inline filter in the back, between the tank and the pump then.. I changed that out..... no difference. Well, then it must be that old cheap dimestore fuel pump that has been on the car forever. I went to town and bought a Facet pump, put it on....... no difference... I figured I'd ask and see if anyone has any ideas or has run across a sudden thing like this before...
We were out a few days ago with the Midget. It ran great all day while running around (about 75 miles total). Just a couple of miles from home it suddenly started bogging and making that fuel starved backfiring as if it were running very lean. Barely had the power to keep itself going. I got it home, but it was running very poorly. Idling badly and if you try to give it gas, it shudders and makes that "lean" backfiring. Pull the choke out and it runs better for a while before it bogs. Points, plugs, cap, coil have about 1000 miles on them. I did a little trouble shooting and found that the clear fuel filter under the hood was almost empty.. Ah, says I, it must be the inline filter in the back, between the tank and the pump then.. I changed that out..... no difference. Well, then it must be that old cheap dimestore fuel pump that has been on the car forever. I went to town and bought a Facet pump, put it on....... no difference... I figured I'd ask and see if anyone has any ideas or has run across a sudden thing like this before...