Rico; Have you check the operation of the full throttle position sensor? Good Luck and Drive Safely Ken Lewis 86 Crewcab,60 356 http://Neksiwel.20m.com/ On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 16:13:48 EDT Rico Sapolich <JKrevnov@AOL.COM> writes: > In a message dated 6/10/01 3:20:15 PM, mike_l_f@HOTMAIL.COM writes: > > << Last fall I had an episode where I was driving down the road, and > the > engine > just cut out for an eyeblink. . . > . . . Any other suggestions? > >> > > Mike, > > All I can do is commiserate with you and say I don't know. The same > symptom > cropped up for me last year halfway into our vacation trip (of > course!). I > had just pulled away from a rest stop thinking how well the van was > running. > When I floored it quickly, the engine cut out and the tach dropped > to zero. > As soon as I backed off the throttle all was well. I could > replicate this > behavior at will by stopping on the throttle, but gradually feeding > in the > throttle did not cause any problems right to the redline. I pulled > over and > with the engine unloaded, the symptom would not show up. I also > jiggled > every conductor in the engine bay vainly trying to provoke the > cutting out. > I could find nothing and ever since the van has not repeated the > cutting out. > Because the tach dropped like a rock to zip, I figure it must be an > ignition > conductor going to ground . . . somewhere. > > Rich > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. |
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