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I had much the same type of issue with one of my cars several years ago and it took months to finally find it. I thought it was a fuel problem and we check and cleaned the carb, fuel lines, and everything looked and tested OK. Then one day when we had it on my friends lift at his garage and it was at idle he noticed the rubber hose that connected to the fuel line suddenly sucked closed. We had checked that hose several times and it felt good. But it would start to close a little and power would drop and suddenly the engine would die. We pulled the hose off and checked it, even cut it open and it looked good. No soft spots or anything. But I put a new hose on and have never had a problem since. And as coincidence would have it a month or so after that a guy that I worked with was talking about his Dodge Charger doing the same thing. He had spend quite a bit having garages look at it and I told him what I had found. He changed that short rubber line and his problem went away too. And the one he took off looked good and had no soft spots in it either.
Ron
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