Date:         Fri, 9 Feb 2007 06:21:27 -0800
Reply-To:     Tom Forhan <fourwdvw@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Tom Forhan <fourwdvw@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Weird cutting out still happening... mechanical switch?
Comments: To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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Are you sure the O2 sensor is good? This really sounds
like my syncro's beaviour with a bad sensor.
Essentially the sensor is cut out of the circuit
during warmup, so it runs fine on startup, but then
bad things happen once the computer gets out of the
startup mode.

Just a thought...

Tom F.


--- Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET> wrote:

> A month or more ago I had a weird cutting out
> problem where the car,
> mostly after sitting cold, would run OK for half a
> mile or so and
> then cut out, with the tach needle falling to zero,
> and then catching
> almost immediately. Always happens on deceleration,
> or so it seems
> (maybe because half a mile from my house, any
> direction, there's
> something to decelerate for).
>
> A few times it has not immediately caught after
> failing. I have
> learned to immediately jiggle the key, but have no
> way of knowing if
> this is causing the engine to catch or if it is some
> mumbo jumbo I
> have developed that I think is working. This has
> happened four or
> five times recently. Twice the car has died and
> taken several minutes
> to restart. I'm wondering if it could be the
> mechanical part of the
> switch getting sloppy. I notice that my annoying
> key-in-the-lock
> chime happens intermittently, sometimes not at all.
>
> Anybody had this happen, where the mechanical part
> of the lock won't
> turn the electrical part far enough?
>
> Jim
>




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