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Old 05-04-12, 04:19 PM
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1980 problem!

This morning I was driving my 1980 rx7, and I was cruising along in 5th gear, everything fine. Then all of a sudden I had no power at all, I had to pull over and couldn't even take off in 1st gear, It would die, and didn't sound good.
I was in the middle of nowhere and had no service so I was stranded! I sat there for about 15 minutes before I was going to start walking, decided to try one last time. I started it up and it was back to normal, sounded and felt great. And I made it home.
My question, is what could this have been? I have been havin some carb issues, where the secondaries have been kickin in about half the time. Would this be another carb issue? Or fuel pump? Possibly something else??

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Kyle
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Sounds like it is either an ignition issue (failing ignitor) or a fuel pump issue.
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