Replace the fuel filter.
Gas pedal to the floor slow acceleration.
Replace accelerator pump or clean or replace the carburetort.
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Before you get too worried let s take a look at some of the possible easy fixes.
Sure the car is moving but it s ridiculously slow and you can tell that the engine is struggling to keep up.
Upon trying to resume accelerating we got no response from the gas pedal.
Generally not a diy job if you have a carburetor you may have a bad accelerator pump or power circuit.
I could push the pedal to the floor with little to no response and mostly no response.
3 malfunction of tps the basic principle of the throttle position sensor tps is to detect the throttle valve opening angle which is controlled by accelerator pedal.
This can cause the slow acceleration of the vehicle even with the accelerator pedal completely pressed making it unreliable when it s needed.
We were going up an incline and got cut off by another car and had to push on the brakes.
Modern vehicles feature a complex set of systems for delivering fuel to the engine and evacuating exhaust gasses and a failure of any.
When i push the gas pedal my car barely accelerates and when i push the gas pedal all the way to the floor it still accelerates very slow.
This is a common problem found especially in high mileage vehicles.
A properly tuned car should spring to life when the driver presses the accelerator but some vehicles return only sluggish performance even with the gas pedal fully depressed.
Your catalytic converter may be clogged.
Nothing at all besides a slight acceleration until we pulled off the road.
The fuel filter may be clogged.