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Stalls when take off in first gear and stalls or deism when stopped on hill taking off? What could it be please help if you can.I have a 1988 Ford festival lx 2 barrel carburetor 1.3 l 5speed my email is [email protected]. please help the car has no power on take off from stop it is like it is not getting gas it shake and goes dead unless you ride clutch slowly out and steal wants to stall out. Gas pedal all the way down still no good. When it gets going runs like a top. But starting off is very hard help help help please

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Hmmm, love those old Festiva's, great cars. Sounds like you may have a worn bushing in the distributor causing the timing to change under load. Remove the distributor cap and see if you can move the shaft side to side any. If that's good, check your spark plug wires by inserting some known good plugs into the wires , ground the side of the plugs to the engine while someone else turns the engine over. If each plug is firing a nice blue spark hot spark then your plug wires are good. If you haven't changed the spark plugs do so, even new ones can be bad. Next is fuel, old carbs are problems esp if the car has sat a while. Weber 2 stage for about $220 is a sure cure for a bad carb, I have one on my Samurai 1.3.
You didn't say if the car has ample power when it's running ok. Do a compression check to see if your valves need work. All gas engines must have compression, fuel, correct timing on firing the sparkplugs. Last but not least if all else is good use a timing light to see if the timing is advancing when you rev the engine.

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well with out a trouble code there isnt much help you are going to get online. go to your local advanced auto or parts store and have them retrieve the code or codes from the pcm. if you can't get the van to the parts store you can rent a code reader from most part stores

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The idling setting in the car is not set correctly or the idling is LOW due to fault in the setting.
You will need to check if the throttle position is correct and the idle setting WITH THE CLUTCH PRESSED must be of the CORRECT IDLING RPM. If not reset the position after cleaning the system.

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