My 1989 ford festiva idles fine runs good just when i shift into fourth gear it acts like its,starving for gas i lose power and have to down replaced the mechanical fuel pump fuel filter could it

Asked by migration_johndel43 Feb 02, 2015 at 07:08 PM about the 1989 Ford Festiva L

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Be the needle valve clogged up should i
take it out  and clean it or is the float
messed up

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James answered 9 years ago

none of the above . try tweaking the timing, a stretched timing chain retards things after a while

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