Re: Suddenly No-Go

Posted by Steve203 On 2014/9/10 18:28:06

<i>I didn't think of carb icing but when I finally get some play time I will explore this further.</i>

The only time I had trouble with the carb icing was in the dead of a Michigan winter with temps barely above zero, and my drive to work/class was only 2 or 3 miles so the engine never really got warmed up.

Seems that if you had some sort of ignition failure, it would have happened from start, not a mile or two after start.

You eliminated the possibility of the choke being stuck closed.

I'm going to go with Kansasboy: contaminated gas. The run around the block used up the gas in the fuel line and you got down to stuff pulled from the tank. I gassed up in Auburn after visiting the ACD museum last year. About a mile later the engine started stumbling.