A15 CARB PROBLEMS

[brownevan]

Hello everyone,

 

If this has been discussed in an earlier topic, my apologies in advance.

 

So, my 1979 Datsun 210 Wagon (in signature) and I have been battling her slight loss of power since the day I bought the car a couple months ago.

 

What started out as a tiny, nearly unnoticeable hesitation when starting from a stop, has blossomed into full blown intermittent losses of power, stranding me on the road randomly. Every time this happens I wonder if the car will start again. Sometimes it won't start for 30 minutes, and sometimes it won't skip a beat and drive without a single problem for 15 or 20 minutes afterwards.

It seems to have a loss of power ONLY in the low rev range. if I can get the car up to speed (praying to god), it appears that it would run through an entire fuel tank on the interstate with no problems.

 

The gap in hesitation increased, until it took pumping the gas and shifting into neutral on the auto tranny to get the car to stay running. Today, it's broken down 4 times; the same day i replaced it's leaky fuel pump with a brand new one, and I barely got the car home. I had to run every stop light for 5 miles.

 

since i bought the car, I have sprayed a compressed carb cleaner directly into the carb, I've ran two bottles of seafoam, checked the fuel filter, and replaced the fuel pump; so I am fairly certain that it's a carb issue. I posted about this a few weeks ago in the 210 forum, but the problem went away a bit and I was driving other cars. 

 

I blew up a built 4k starlet that I have and am sitting, waiting for a 1350 dollar repair while the 210 is my only other ride, currently. Anyone who can help me or had similar problems will be my sovereign savior, as I've had it up to here with the car, and I don't have a third vehicle right now.

 

I live in Portland, Oregon if any of yous are experts :)

 

thanks guys, been reading ratsun a long time before i had this car, but this is my first datsun and I just want to keep her on the road.

 

(PS: What are my options for aftermarket carb, will a weber 32/36 run well?)

[ggzilla]

> If this has been discussed in an earlier topic, my apologies in advance.

 

>> I posted about this a few weeks ago in the 210 forum, but the problem went away

 

 

You are saying it has been discussed in an earlier topic? I'll respond to that one.

 

Mods, this duplicate post can be closed now.

[brownevan]

like i said. the problems i described in the first post weren't nearly as severe as they are now; and i felt I should repost this in the engine forum, and not the b310 forum. whichever is clever. my bad