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Date:         Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:44:41 -0400
Reply-To:     John Meeks <vanagon@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         John Meeks <vanagon@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Gutless when first started - fixed?
Comments: To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <4723A382.1030709@gmail.com>
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> ANYWAYS, it seems to be fixed. I wish I knew what fixed it, but I don't > because I did two things at the same time. > I> Thing 1: Ken Lewis asked whether the mechanical advance might be sticking? > Advised adding a few drops to the felt button under the distributor's > rotor. Should be done at every oil change, per owner's manual, he pointed > out. I can't say whether the PO ever did this, I got the van at 68,000 > miles and it has 75,000 miles on it now. But I changed the oil once and > didn't oil the button, so I put some light machine oil on it until it was > saturated. > > Thing 2: When I was doing the compression test, a little circlip-kind of > clippy thing (a "Jesus spring"*) which seems to be meant to grab the end > of the spark plug hurled itself into oblivion from the inside of the plug > end of the #2 plug wire. The wire seemed to grip the plug with a nice > tight grip without so I didn't give it much thought. After oiling the > button, I replace the plug wire. > > After doing those two things, the gutlessness seems to have vanished. One > of those two things seems to have fixed it and I don't know which.

I'm voting for Thing #1 but thanks for the tip on oiling the felt button in the distributor. I'll bet not too many of us knew about that.

-- John Meeks ::::going out to oil his felt thing::::

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