Just cut out on the Fwy, fuel issue Options

[johnpierre]

hello 914 community

so I was driving the other Sunday - nice drive with no traffic due to covid, doing 80 on the 405 heading south, for those of you that don't live in LA, that is in LA ;-) and then all of a sudden I just lost power.

it sounded like I ran out of gas but that of course is impossible as the tank was 1/2 full. I have a 73, 1.7 fuel injected engine and I have never had this issue.

I suppose I can tow the car to a garage but I thought I might put this out there in case this sounds familiar to anyone and I could try to troubleshoot the issue first. is there anything I can check rather easily to solve this? has this happened to anyone else under these conditions?

I looked all around the top of the engine as best I could when it happened and I didn't see anything disconcerted or otherwise out of place - but then again I don't really know what I was looking for and it was hot so I really could feel around that much.

-jp-

[johnpierre]

ok here is the update:

found the relay board - thanks for that - inspected the little fuses and they were ok. nothing looks burnt or damaged so i removed the two round fuses from the light motors and swaped out two from the relay board to see if that would solve the issue, it did not.

i have ordered three new round fuses from Pelican here in long beach, they will arrive tomorrow and i will install them and see what happens.

here is a curious thing however:

now i don't here the low whine of the fuel pump anymore and while i was trying to start the car i heard a pop and saw some smoke coming from the engine bay, i looked all over and could not see anything burnt, or still smoking. i could not smell anything buring so just assumed it came fromthe tail pipe area.