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Car will not idle. 200 1979

posted by  244_DL on  Thu Apr 17 05:33 CST 2003
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I have a 1979 244 DL and it was running just fine and then mid-way through a weekend trip it was cutting out after I started it. I gave it gas as I started it and kept the flow constant and it drove fine, except it wouldn't idle. It dies when ever I take my foot off of the gas. I replaced the fuel filter, spark plugs, distributer cap and rotor and am still having the same problem. Now when turn the key and I don't give the car any gas the engine starts with kinda a surge like normal but it makes one large squeak sound and dies. I was thinking it has to have something to do with the mechanism that supplies fuel when the driver is not manually pressing the pedal...Please help....Also what do you think the squeak sound could be?






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