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I had driven RedBird to Dalton yesterday to run a few errands. On the way home, I had 2 more stops. She died at each of them, and was not anxious to re start again. But within a few minutes she did. Then I was thinking, she has driven so perfectly since the change of the AFM plus the timing light used on her, what was the difference? Then, it came to me, she had less than a half tank of gas in her on the way home yesterday. Plus, incidentally, during all the time she was being worked on, she never had more than 5 gallons in her. I'm wondering if that could be a part of her stalling problems? Hmmm... So, onward, I needed to go back to town today, for a similar run of errands, 7 to be exact. The first being to fill up with gas. After that fill up, she was a perfect little lady, with no hint of stalling. Today was a carbon copy of yesterday. Same outside temp, same warm up before leaving, same stopping and starting without warm ups. And, she ran beautifully. I'm sure it will take more times of repeating the low gas to see if this incident will happen again. I don't know, but it seems like the coincidence (?) of the tank half empty, vs full may be of some bearing with her. I guess all I can say is "we will see". Sharing this with you all, to see if you have any thoughts about it. I would like your opinion, maybe there is something mechanical to cause this instance. Jai 😇 🚘

Got the L24 out last night! Went super smooth. Got the new engine out of the crate and on the stand too. Going to take the trans in for rebuilt on Monday. IMG_5346 by blodi, on Flickr IMG_5349 by blodi, on Flickr IMG_5352 by blodi, on Flickr IMG_5354 by blodi, on Flickr IMG_5357 by blodi, on Flickr IMG_5358 by blodi, on Flickr IMG_5360 by blodi, on Flickr

Yes! The hood is backwards to American cars. Ha! Those Japanese who made the Z cars, really figured everything out. No chance of it blowing up and blinding the drivers vision. In answer to your comment Patcon, both times she died we were out in the road. Checking the gauge was out of the question, I just wanted to get us out of the road. Say it happened again and I try to restart her, how much time is available to get a correct reading of the gauge? Or, if in the trying to restart her, has that ruined the correct gauge reading for the stalling? We were in Dalton, a much bigger town than my little berg of 900, and the afternoon traffic had started already. I will not forget in the future, if not out in traffic. Thank you, Jai 😇 🚘

New fuel filter time!! If it keeps clogging you might have to look up the line for other problems. Get one of those clear glass filters so you can see when it's clogged.

I know Jai reported on one of the previous occasions she did open the hood and the gauge read good pressure. Ignition?

Jai, When the car cuts off or won't start you need to be checking the pressure gauge under the hood. If your area is as safe as it looks, you can just leave the hood popped so its easy to open and look. The car will run fine on the road with the hood popped.

I very recently went through something like this. The little cone filter on the fuel pump inlet port was clogged from debris in the gas tank. Cleaning that made all the difference in the world! Chuck

A full tank of gas will aid the fuel pump do it's job. Testing your fuel pump would be a simple diagnostic test.

I'm pretty much current now. Working on the driver side door and hood this weekend. Here are some out of sequence pictures of the roof and rear car body work. I did the sugar scoops last weekend, but didn't take any pictures. Sometimes I forget... :-)

If the low gas problem persists that would make it easier to diagnose. There are only a few possibilities, but I will wait to bring them up. If you confirm the diagnosis we will cross that bridge then.