I have a '87 camaro with a 350 v8 in it. I need help because every time I go up a hill (Dosent even matter the size of the hill) my car stalls out. I cant even make it up the freeway on-ramp. It starts bogging out until it just stops and dies, and I haft to pull off to the side of the road. and then i can get it started and idle, but as soon as I press the gas it will die. After that you haft to back it off the hill in order even get it started. What could be causing this?

 

Sounds like a fuel delivery problem. In fact, EXACTLY, to a "tee", what a car with a Q-Jet does, when the little filter that's in the fuel inlet nut, gets all plugged up with rusty crusty tank funk.

Carb or FI?

 

Are you still on the hill?

 

Carb. What should I do about it? Switch the filter? Clean the lines?

 

what he said.

 

Great place to start.

Before you do anything though, you might want to be certain that that's what's going on.

Make the car malfunction; keep doing whatever causes that, until it absolutely quits running. IMMEDIATELY turn the key to Off (NOT Lock!!!!!) and take it out of gear at the same time, WITHOUT LETTING IT IDLE (which would give the engine the opportunity to replenish the bowl and thereby destroy any evidence of its crime); and pull off to the side of the road. Pop the fuel bowl off and see how much fuel is in it. If it's not FULL FULL FULL, you just found your proximate cause. Your carb is running out of gas.

Now all you gotta do is find the root cause of the proximate cause. Depending on your setup, it might be the fuel filter in the inlet nut (I can only guess since you still haven't told us what you've got), some other filter somewhere, the "sock" thing on the pickup in the gas tank, a broken fuel pump spring, a line blocked with the crusties from sitting around (almost INEVITABLE it it has sat up for more than a year or so at any one time), even just, a too-long bolt run into the "leak" bolt hole on the front of the motor binding up the fuel pump rod.

 

I have a carburetor. Is it safe for the motor to be ran that way? I haven't drove it because of that reason, but if it is starving for gas like you guys say, I don't know if I should run it until I fix the problem.

 

If you get into it on flat ground does it fall on its face?

 

What kind? how old? what fuel pump?

 

When your on flat ground it runs fine! No complaints on flat ground, but as soon as you hit even the slightest hill it wants to die, and then it will. Its a Edelbrock carb. Not quite sure what year. and not too sure about the fuel pump either. I just barely got the car, and I'm trying to restore it. I will look at the fuel pump later, but have you heard of anyone else having this problem? And if so what was it, or can you re-direct me to any other forum with this problem? Could it just be as simple as the filter? or does it sound like im going to haft to rebuild the whole carburetor?

 

Possibly; had the chance to test it since you changed it?