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quote:Originally posted by Tom S.
Ozz, I won't resay what everyone else has said except to offer an explanation and a tip. Your fuel pump is a diaphragm type pump, and the diaphragms do wear out over time and cause not only "leak down", but eventually other problems like stalling and poor or sporadic acceleration.
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I would also suspect a bad diaphragm on the accelerator pump of the carb. If it is rotton or has enough of a hole in it, it will not spray enough fuel(or possibly none) down the carb throat when you depress the gas pedal.
When you use starter fluid, it is essentially doing what the accelerator pump should be doing, and it will get the engine firing enough to get the suction necessary to draw fuel from the float bowl, through the jets, and keep running. If it is the diaphragm, you may also notice some lag time from when you step on the gas and when the engine starts pulling, feeling sluggish in accelerating.