I recently bought this car with 182,000 miles on it. After a short period of time, it seemed to start losing a little power. Actually it seemed as if it was losing torque. It would wind out more before shifting and would seem to shift more between drive and overdrive.
Then I noticed it idling a little rough.
Next thing that happened was that it starting cutting out the other day when I was driving over a mountain. It was at about a half-tank. I turned around and headed back down the mountain, and it actually completely stalled out once, and I had to crank on it quite a bit to get it started. I topped off the tank, and it then got me where I was going.
The next morning I drove it about 30 miles to a friends house and when I went to crank it, it just wouldn't run. It was running so rough, it was undriveable.
I suspected the filter. I pulled the filter and outer pump assembly, and in trying to pull the filter off I damaged the hose coming out of the filter. I replaced the hose all the way to the regulator.
I don't have any way of knowing what the pressure is coming out fo the pump, but it's really under pressure, because it really lets go when I disconnect the fuel line from the regulator.
I've got nothing coming out of the regulator. I unhooked it from the rail and nothing. I find that a bit strange as everything I've read on this group suggests that when the regulator goes bad it let's too much pressure through, not that it shuts off.
I'm also a bit confused about that whole 1/2 tank thing, as that would suggest a bad low-pressure pump in the tank.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance, Taylor