new 84 owner need help!
My name is ralph, I am from Playa del rey, Ca. I need help.
I recently bought a 84 Corvette, with 120,000 miles. i bought the car from a individual who had kept it garaged for the 15 years he had owned it. The inside and outside were excellent. Everything had been kept stock. He told me only problems he knew about the car were 1- led dash cluster needed to be replaced and 2-it would sometimes stall, however it would always start up again for him. He had taken to garage to be fixed but unable to diagnose unless problem occured while at garage. Before I bought the car I drove it for about an hour, tried to get it to stall, no luck! I then had it looked at by his local mechanic who seemed knowledgeable. He said his opinion was the car had been sitting lately and just either had bad gas or fuel filter. So I bought the car for 2500. Another reason I bought car was because i had also come across a local corvette mechanic who was highly recommended and had 35 years with vettes (especially cross-fires). I have always made it a habit to find a specialist who could make the car affordable. Drove the car home (80 miles), immediately took car to the mechanic, he put it on scope, discovered bad plug and wire and vacuum hose leak. So replaced all and it ran great. Next day drove about 60 miles and started to stall. At signal, stall, then while running, would restart and then finally no more restart, had to have towed to shop. No sputter noticed, just died, no backfire, just stalled. Anyway at shop had me turn engine over and discovered no fuel delivery, diagnosed problem was fuel pump. Next day changed out filter and pump, started up then died again. He kept searching for problem, then with a flashlight discovered sugar in gas tank. Thought that was problem, cleaned tank, lines, pump filter and finally injectors and still stalling! That was a week ago. mechanic said there is a gremlin in the car causing a fuel delivery failure. I don't like to micro-manage subject matter experts, but he said he is stumped. Thank you for reading this far, any ideas, please....I would just like to drive the car... all the best and a happy thanksgiving, ralph flores jr.(ralphflores@ca.rr.com) |
I had a prob with engine stalling and it turned out to be a wire broken inside the insulation.
The insulation would get warm, expand, and break the connection. Found the prob using a continuity tester. My prob was the wire from the ign. switch to the coil. It may be a long shot, but ya might look into the wiring for your fuel delivery. |
thanks for the insight, will follow up
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