Okay so the SWB vit I purchased recently a couple of weeks ago started losing power intermittantly (as if the tank was too low). I replaced the fuel filter which was quite old.
Tonight in leaving the car park at work - once I got onto the road - seriously lost power. Almost stranded me completely in 3 intersections as I found somewhere to get off the road in the traffic.
So parked it and waited for NRMA.
I was thinking rubbish in the fuel tank. Reason being is that I did run out of fuel the day before (its quite a drive from Batlow to the nearest fuel stop early in the morning - Gundagai - and I got within 10km. Yes it is my fault, among other things still not used to the sudden rapid drop of the fuel gauge when it gets to 1/4 due to a ding in the tank... On the plus side a friendly copper stopped and gave me a lift to Gundagai and back
After i drove to the petrol station and filled it the rest of the way up it started losing power again for about 5 seconds, then it was okay until tonight. Given the timing I was thinking I may have stirred up some rubbish in the tank.By the time NRMA arrived the car had cooled down and the problem seemed to have vanished. Started the car and he unplugged the AFM and the engine kept running. He said that should have stalled it so I have a problem with the AFM.
Makes sense to me. He followed me home and it was fine all the way.
When I got home I did the unplug AFM test again and now every time I did it the car died each time.
So any thoughts before I order a new AFM from repco? At any case it does seem unreliable.
thanks