Thread: fuel starvation and alien spacecraft static

hi everyone, im new to the site and would really appreciate some help... i have an '82 323i and everytime i get down to about a third of a tank the car starts 'choking' whenever i accelerate hard or change gears, it is progressively getting worse and there is also a loud electric, buzzing, crackling (like static from an alien spacecraft) type of noise coming from the back of the car when the tank gets to that level im guessing...

only one main fuel pump which sits on a bracket under the rear somewhere, give it a tap with a little hammer

Hi, forgive my bad english, but what does "choking" mean? I am asking because I had some problems with acceleration and the car's drivability in general, when the gas used to go less than half tank, and solved them (at least it seems so, so far!).What I did (well, not me, the car's technician), was to clean the pipe (he took it out and washed it) that leads gas from the tank to the carb. After that, not only the...