Re: Engine cuts out on highway & up hill...

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2012/4/7 18:52:44

Has the car had a recent, A to Z tune-up? With modern cars essentially never needing a tune-up, younger folks encountering older cars don't realize that a tune-up every 10,000 miles and pretty much a standard practice. If your car hasn't had one, that's where I'd start.

A comprehensive tune-up might include cleaning battery terminals including the ground, new plugs, points, condenser, rotor, cap, perhaps plug wires. And cleaned or replaced gas filters and screens, fuel pump pressure check, air filter cleaned and reoiled, manifold vacuum check, compression test. There are some very good guidelines of what a comprehensive tune-up should include in some of the older auto service books like Motors.

After that, atleast when you do have a problem you know what it isn't.