Pleeeeease help!
My 99 Swift has been intermittently coughing and spluttering, very badly - in fact so badly that if a fit takes it while driving the car gives great lurches and won't take off again, though the engine will restart.
The other day it died in the turning lane of a main suburban feeder at peak hour. The horror, the horror!
My feeling is that the carburetor is choked with muck, and that a new fuel filter is required, but when I went to do it I couldn't find the fuel filter to replace it, or the drain for the carburetor.
Can anyone help me out, or suggest any other reasons for this problem/possible solutions. I can't really afford to take it to a mechanic at the moment, and the only one I could feasibly get it to is a real rip-off merchant when it comes to single women.
I am pretty certain the problem isn't electrical.
My 99 Swift has been intermittently coughing and spluttering, very badly - in fact so badly that if a fit takes it while driving the car gives great lurches and won't take off again, though the engine will restart.
The other day it died in the turning lane of a main suburban feeder at peak hour. The horror, the horror!
My feeling is that the carburetor is choked with muck, and that a new fuel filter is required, but when I went to do it I couldn't find the fuel filter to replace it, or the drain for the carburetor.
Can anyone help me out, or suggest any other reasons for this problem/possible solutions. I can't really afford to take it to a mechanic at the moment, and the only one I could feasibly get it to is a real rip-off merchant when it comes to single women.
I am pretty certain the problem isn't electrical.
