In a message dated 8/31/03 10:22:44 PM Mountain Daylight Time, AudibleA@AOL.COM writes: > Symptoms I drive a few 100 feet down the road everything is fine and then > it starts losing power, regains it, loses it, back fires, a bit of black > smoke, I have to pull over, shut it off, starts fine and the cycle repeats > itself. > Plugs, wires are fine Hi All, My question to the above is, "how do you know the wires are good?" On my 91, I was having all kinds of start & run problems. There were no obvious spark plug wire problems, however. No sparking at night or shorts. Or so I thought. Finally I bit the bullet, spent the dough & bought a set. Ran fine ever since! I guess I could have checked out the resistance of each wire, but who really ever does that? Just say replace them when ya should! happy trails, JC... |
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