EbidaDragon
04-25-2013, 07:19 AM
So, my car finally decided to totally slip out on me a night ago. Warmed her up a little like usual in the parking lot at work before I left, pulled out onto the road, and under acceleration there, I got a sudden shudder,and poof, no power to the ground and a total stall-out. Was lucky enough to get it mostly into the safe median of the road, but it was 10PM, I forgot my flashlight and my sockets/tools at home, so I was at a majority loss.
Headlights were more than strong, cranked just fine, fans, radio, windows worked, but..not even an inkling to want to start for the 5 or 6 times I tried that night. I did have a can of carb cleaner with my backup fluids, and sprays of that would bring it to two or three second bout of vibrant life, but then dead all over again.
Got it towed to the shop my parents used to get the van worked on to see what it was(I guessed fuel pump/relay, but didn't have one on hand to try and replace/check myself), and I got a call this morning to say it was choke-related, and is going to cost me a pretty penny for something small and annoying like that. My question is about it being worth it to get that fixed now and having to worry about even -more- carb problems in the future, or biting the bullet now and just getting either a new carb or buying a Weber conversion.
Headlights were more than strong, cranked just fine, fans, radio, windows worked, but..not even an inkling to want to start for the 5 or 6 times I tried that night. I did have a can of carb cleaner with my backup fluids, and sprays of that would bring it to two or three second bout of vibrant life, but then dead all over again.
Got it towed to the shop my parents used to get the van worked on to see what it was(I guessed fuel pump/relay, but didn't have one on hand to try and replace/check myself), and I got a call this morning to say it was choke-related, and is going to cost me a pretty penny for something small and annoying like that. My question is about it being worth it to get that fixed now and having to worry about even -more- carb problems in the future, or biting the bullet now and just getting either a new carb or buying a Weber conversion.