85 mazda 12a

i was driving a 75 mile trip about 15 min in the 7 started to die like it wasent getting enough fuel i fought it for 5 min and couldent run over 40 then finally stoped to have a look for oviouse things it died i checked the choke and the fuel tank diddent have any preasure so i babbyed it the rest of the way every 10 or so miles it would do it ao i would push the clutch in and let it die and then start it again and would get 10 more miles i replaced the fuel filter but the old one wasent that bad any ideas?

nod1stgen

(IMO) Sounds like sediment or dirt in the tank. Theres a very fine screen on the end of the fuel inlet and after a while sediment sometimes builds up on the screen and makes the holes smaller and smaller(that is if all that is stock) finally any little thing will stop it up enough to starve the engine of fuel.

Dont RELY on this to be the problem though, Ive had the same thing happen and slowly replaced fuel components until I finally changed the carb and found that the jets were building up with setiment.

Suparslinc

I had that happen to me. Forget about getting up a hill until you take apart the very top of the carb, like nod1stgen mentioned. In my case it was just a bad tank of gas. After that I installed a second fuel filter by the carb.