My (un)lucky week, 914 goes comatose on road Options

[MBowman325]

And people said 30 was supposed to be bad

A series of untimely, unfortunate and bizarre events have made this a less than desired week. While nobody's dead that I'm aware of, which I'm grateful for (my Dad had major neck surgery a couple of weeks ago and my brother's in Iraq), not much has gone right this week.

I've been driving the Impala recently because I'd thought I had a major fuel leak in the 914 up front.. Turned out to be user error, reconnected hose and smells better. Coming home from Texas Tuesday the Imp developed a bad vibration that's progressed, engine related somewhere. Again, haven't had a chance to look at it because of various obligations, so I grab the 914 and drive.

Does OK yesterday. This morning on the way to work, it dies without warning. It will crank and I hear the fuel pump if I move the flap. I attempted to "prime" it with the flap and it ran again for about 20 feet and died. Afterwards I was unable to get it to fire again. Cranks fine, no unexpected mechanical noises. I did notice that the flap didn't seem to be all that smooth in it's motion - almost felt like it was dragging about 30% into the motion.

I was late for work and wasn't quite out of the neighborhood, so I was able to walk it back most of the way (only had to push uphill about 40 yards...) and drive the Impala in with it's problems - no time to give it any sort of once-over. Looks like I'll be working on cars tonight.

I'll have a better idea of what's going on when I can spend some time with it, but any ideas or recommendations would be great.