Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site grkermi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!genrad!grkermi!andrew From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: mysterious starting problem Message-ID: <508@grkermi.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 08:38:47 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermi.508 Posted: Tue Jul 9 08:38:47 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 07:50:39 EDT References: <404@ttidcb.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 16 In article <404@ttidcb.UUCP> loco@ttidcb.UUCP (CM Dev. Group ) writes: > >i have a 1982 toyota landcruiser and have had the same problem. >it initially happened while driving(out in the middle of the mojave >desert of all places!), the car would just die... >if anyone has had similar problems and >can help please copy me as well. I had a Mazda RX-4 which did the same thing - stall unpredictably and restart only after letting it sit for a while. The problem was eventually - *damn* eventually, if you know what I mean - traced to a defective part in the evaporative emission control stuff which was causing fuel starvation. (After sitting for a few minutes the vacuum that was causing the problem disappeared, and it would restart.) AWR