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Could easily be a fuel problem. How many miles? Did you get gas when there
was a tanker there filling the tanks (never do that one)?

If you have a few miles on, you can try fuel injector cleaner. Try different
gas. Amoco is always real good if its available in your area. At the least
try a different gas station. Try to fuel up at the same station if possible.

Few things to try.

"Carolina Cool" <cnc@columbia.sc> wrote in message
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>
> Our new Civic stick shift is wonderful in every regard except one and
> that is a tendency of the engine to pause or hesitate for 5-10 seconds
> while under acceleration, up a slight grade, when the motor is cold,
> at 2000 rpm in 2nd and 3rd gears. It acts up like this, to a lesser
> degree, at other times, too. The hesitation is slight and perhaps
> would not even be noticed if the car was equipped with an auto trans.
>
> The motor does not cut out, it continues to run during these 'spells'
> but it seems to be discontinuing or postponing the acceleration
> effort. This hardly seems worthwhile to worry about, but I thought
> that perhaps other Civic owners may have had a similar experience?

"Did you get gas when there
was a tanker there filling the tanks (never do that one)?"

i gotta ask, why not get gas when the tanker is there?





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my guess would be that while the taker is pumping into the fuel tanks under
the pumps the gas in the tank is getting stirred around and what ever junk
that is in there is also getting stirred up, there for you might be pumping
it into your cars tank


"M.C. Tee" <tedwards@NOSPAM.roadrunner.nf.net> wrote in message
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> "Did you get gas when there
> was a tanker there filling the tanks (never do that one)?"
>
> i gotta ask, why not get gas when the tanker is there?
>
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"noway" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in
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> Could easily be a fuel problem. How many miles? Did you get gas when
> there was a tanker there filling the tanks (never do that one)?
>
> If you have a few miles on, you can try fuel injector cleaner. Try
> different gas. Amoco is always real good if its available in your
> area. At the least try a different gas station. Try to fuel up at the
> same station if possible.
>
> Few things to try.
>
> "Carolina Cool" <cnc@columbia.sc> wrote in message
> news:3f488d75.67211456@nntp.pbtcomm.net...
>>
>> Our new Civic stick shift is wonderful in every regard except one and
>> that is a tendency of the engine to pause or hesitate for 5-10
>> seconds while under acceleration, up a slight grade, when the motor
>> is cold, at 2000 rpm in 2nd and 3rd gears. It acts up like this, to
>> a lesser degree, at other times, too. The hesitation is slight and
>> perhaps would not even be noticed if the car was equipped with an
>> auto trans.
>>
>> The motor does not cut out, it continues to run during these 'spells'
>> but it seems to be discontinuing or postponing the acceleration
>> effort. This hardly seems worthwhile to worry about, but I thought
>> that perhaps other Civic owners may have had a similar experience?
>
>

I second that. Sounds like some fuel pump / fuel line / fuel filter
problem.

When I was in the Military, during and after we recieved fuel, we had to
wait 30 minutes before we could issue fuel of any type. Gives the tank time
to settle. There is always a little water in fuel, dirt in the bottom of
tanks.

"M.C. Tee" <tedwards@NOSPAM.roadrunner.nf.net> wrote in message
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> "Did you get gas when there
> was a tanker there filling the tanks (never do that one)?"
>
> i gotta ask, why not get gas when the tanker is there?