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97lexus

97lexus

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1989 rust bucket driven daily for over 20 years. She is dying without rhyme or reason randomly today. I drove for hours and many miles back-and-forth mostly city driving no problem when I backed onto my driveway. My driver‘s rear wheel went up high on a curb, the other three wheels were low and the car died. It started back up. I straightened the vehicle out, came straight onto the ramp both front wheels low both front wheels high nothing hit it at an angle again, almost as if the body would twist and she puttered out. What the hell could this be little backstory extensive frame repair over the last 20 years and Welding could there be a wire in the body in the frame someplace that is being twisted or pinched any guesses are welcomed

I have a video of this debacle, but I’m not sure how or if I can up
 
take a really close look at your fusible link wires to see if any feel broken internally and also the tightness of the connections.
 
kevin in okinawa said:
take a really close look at your fusible link wires to see if any feel broken internally and also the tightness of the connections.
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Fusible link up by the battery I don’t know why specifically the left rear wheel being compressed up would make that act different, but I will look
 
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Were you low on fuel? Pick up area not submerged at said angle? Do you have a 2f carbed set up? Is your carb fuel bowl at half full on flat ground?
 
97lexus said:
Refusal link up by the battery I don’t know why specifically the left rear wheel being compressed up would make that act different, but I will look
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I know that a bad/going bad fusible link only needs some good bouncing/jostling to intermittently cause similar symptoms as was described.
 
kevin in okinawa said:
I know that a bad/going bad fusible link only needs some good bouncing/jostling to intermittently cause similar symptoms as was described.
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Yes, agreed but it’s not really Jocelyn even if I crawl the back wheel up onto a curb slow there’s no Jocelyn or jolting. It’s almost like if the body twists a little bit it goes. Is there anything back there above the driver‘s rear wheel that could either be electrical shorting or a rubber fuel line? Also, I’m wondering if maybe when it hits that angle the motor shifts and there’s a exhaust leak in the snorkel or something.
 
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That was my first thoughts too.
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Full tank. A mechanic friend of mine said that he found a little plug harness type thing in that quarter panel that was a little bit green when he was looking for a problem with the tail lights I’m wondering if there’s a fee for the fuel pump in that same plug maybe it could be in there.
 
97lexus said:
1989 rust bucket driven daily for over 20 years. She is dying without rhyme or reason randomly today. I drove for hours and many miles back-and-forth mostly city driving no problem when I backed onto my driveway. My driver‘s rear wheel went up high on a curb, the other three wheels were low and the car died. It started back up. I straightened the vehicle out, came straight onto the ramp both front wheels low both front wheels high nothing hit it at an angle again, almost as if the body would twist and she puttered out. What the hell could this be little backstory extensive frame repair over the last 20 years and Welding could there be a wire in the body in the frame someplace that is being twisted or pinched any guesses are welcomed

I have a video of this debacle, but I’m not sure how or if I can up
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97lexus said:
1989 rust bucket driven daily for over 20 years. She is dying without rhyme or reason randomly today. I drove for hours and many miles back-and-forth mostly city driving no problem when I backed onto my driveway. My driver‘s rear wheel went up high on a curb, the other three wheels were low and the car died. It started back up. I straightened the vehicle out, came straight onto the ramp both front wheels low both front wheels high nothing hit it at an angle again, almost as if the body would twist and she puttered out. What the hell could this be little backstory extensive frame repair over the last 20 years and Welding could there be a wire in the body in the frame someplace that is being twisted or pinched any guesses are welcomed

I have a video of this debacle, but I’m not sure how or if I can up
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Anyway, if somebody can please tell me how to put a video up here I would appreciate it. I tried to copy and paste, but I think my whole photo album went on there and I think I erased it. I hope let me know if I didn’t.
 
Say the channel doesn’t have any content.

My money is on a wire pinching somewhere.
My 40 was doing something similar and luckily I was able to identify the problem fairly easily.

Just going to have to get your Sherlock Holmes on.
 
97lexus said:
Full tank. A mechanic friend of mine said that he found a little plug harness type thing in that quarter panel that was a little bit green when he was looking for a problem with the tail lights I’m wondering if there’s a fee for the fuel pump in that same plug maybe it could be in there.
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That connector in the rear left quarter panel is for the fuel pump. If there is green corrosion, it needs to be replaced or eliminated. It will cause the exact symptoms you describe.
 
97lexus said:
1989 rust bucket driven daily for over 20 years. She is dying without rhyme or reason randomly today. I drove for hours and many miles back-and-forth mostly city driving no problem when I backed onto my driveway. My driver‘s rear wheel went up high on a curb, the other three wheels were low and the car died. It started back up. I straightened the vehicle out, came straight onto the ramp both front wheels low both front wheels high nothing hit it at an angle again, almost as if the body would twist and she puttered out. What the hell could this be little backstory extensive frame repair over the last 20 years and Welding could there be a wire in the body in the frame someplace that is being twisted or pinched any guesses are welcomed

I have a video of this debacle, but I’m not sure how or if I can that plug in the quarter was messed up, we cleaned that up. It made it out a little better, but it didn’t fix the problem every time I jacked up the rare suspension thing would die finally, I said to my mechanic I wonder if the engine is shifting the weight at that angle and ****ing up the snorkel that was jury rigged a couple of years ago. It’s short enough that’s exactly what it was when the car tilted at that angle. The weight of the engine would shift ever so slightly and the snorkel was opening up a little crack. We patched it up and off and running, but I’m interim found a s*** load of wires in the back green and s***ty so we are going through and getting everything working at this point, I’m just trying to keep her alive a little while longer don’t laugh, but look at this socket fixup
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OK, figured it out
 
??? Lol. Yes, and?
 
Ya killin us dude! Make sure you edit your title to add “solved”
 
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