Chancer
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Bonnie Scotland
OK, this may be a bit of a wierd post, but anyway, here goes...
I've got an old Ford Cargo 6 ton lorry that I use to transport my horses in (not a pickup type truck, but a commercial type thing), and the muffler parted company with the rest of the exhaust system over the weekend. Everything seemed relatively OK, albeit noisy, until I was driving back home, whereupon the engine suddenly lost power for no apparent reason at about 40. It seemed to just choke up and die - almost like a stall, with no throttle response - and then come back to life again a few seconds later.
It kept on doing it all the way back from the farrier's but seemed to run fine apart from that. There doesn't appear to be any emulsification or anything nasty like that, and nothing was running hot. Is it just the exhaust gases causing too much back pressure and choking the engine, or could it be something more serious?
I've got an old Ford Cargo 6 ton lorry that I use to transport my horses in (not a pickup type truck, but a commercial type thing), and the muffler parted company with the rest of the exhaust system over the weekend. Everything seemed relatively OK, albeit noisy, until I was driving back home, whereupon the engine suddenly lost power for no apparent reason at about 40. It seemed to just choke up and die - almost like a stall, with no throttle response - and then come back to life again a few seconds later.
It kept on doing it all the way back from the farrier's but seemed to run fine apart from that. There doesn't appear to be any emulsification or anything nasty like that, and nothing was running hot. Is it just the exhaust gases causing too much back pressure and choking the engine, or could it be something more serious?