hutchtoo

My aftermarket distributor is still good.

The problem was simple: new plugs and wires. Turns out I was running on
3-1/2 cylinders, amazingly.

michael pardee

Congratulations and thanks for the feedback! Mike

mwojcik@newsguy.com (michael

In article <LIudnaVWPrfsfKDeRVn-gA@rcn.net>, "hutchtoo" <hutchtoo@gmail.com> writes:


Years ago I had a Hyundai Excel. I had some routine maintenance,
including a tune-up, done right before a two-day drive from
Massachusetts to Florida. On the morning of the second day it was
running roughly and I couldn't get it past 70 MPH on the highway. At
my first stop it kept threatening to stall, so I popped the hood in
the hope that it would be something obvious and easy to repair.

It was: one of the plug wires had come off the plug and was dangling
free. I'd been running on three cylinders. Put it back on and
problem solved.

I've also had a Dodge van that ran for months on five of six
cylinders; finally got around to changing the plugs and wires, and
one wire had disintegrated completely inside the plug boot.

Modern cars, even relatively crappy ones, are impressively resilient.

--
Michael Wojcik michael.wojcik@microfocus.com

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things
that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. And bleeding.
Shooting and bleeding. -- Haruki Murakami (trans Philip Gabriel)