Frank, Try removing and cleaning the grounds. I'm not familiar with the 2.1 litre motor that you have in your '86, but on a 1.9 litre there's a whole bunch of them fastened under a 6mm bolt (10mm wrench) on the left cylinder head (front is front) over the #4 cylinder. Jim Arnott WetWesties Union, OR > Frank Assinck wrote: > > L.S. > <snip> > the ignition is cut off randomly. This > problem comes and goes but when it acts up its no fun to drive in > the car. The problem does not act up when the car is idle-ing, which > makes it very hard to track down the problem in a garage. It's not > the coil and not the distributor because they were exchanged and the > problem still acted up. <snip> > From two > different sides I heard that this problem has to do with > the grounding of the electrical circuit and that other electrical > device ( like power windows or maybe the fridge) can disturb the > ignition circuit. |
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