Hard to start, you almost have to feather the pedal to get it to start. Then feather it because it acts like it's missing a cylinder to idle. It never really smooths out, but it does get better. Driving down the road it acts like it's missing a cylinder, and any acceleration it "falls on its face."
It wasn't like this before the fuel pump left us... If it ever did. We figured it was at the very least extremely weak and not helping matters.
Brad
[This message has been edited by Fats (edited 12-29-2014).]
Inside the tank was clean, but it was dumped out and fresh fuel put in. (Only sat around a month or so.)
Just went out to start it and it was hard to start, but idled just like it should after starting. I decided to let it run for a while and walked toward the house... It stuttered and went back to it's high/low almost dying idle, back to revving, almost dying. Ran like that for about 5 minutes, then died.
Well, It'll start and run, it will kinda idle too. But put it into gear and it tries to die. This is not the TCC. I can idle down the road fine, feathering the fuel to keep it alive, but I try to speed up, or go up a hill and it starts missing and almost dying. Little backfires too.
Tomorrow I'm taking it to a shop, I can't properly diagnose it, and it needs to be fixed correctly. I don't want to just throw parts at it.
Hard to start, you almost have to feather the pedal to get it to start. Then feather it because it acts like it's missing a cylinder to idle. It never really smooths out, but it does get better. Driving down the road it acts like it's missing a cylinder, and any acceleration it "falls on its face."
It wasn't like this before the fuel pump left us... If it ever did. We figured it was at the very least extremely weak and not helping matters.
Brad
Hey Fats, my impression is that this is more than likely an ignition problem, either a crank position sensor, or your coil packs are going bad.
Thanks.
+'s around. 
