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Date:         Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:49:46 -0400
Reply-To:     B Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
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From:         B Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET>
Subject:      Vacuum question.  Another continuing saga.
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The van still felt like it had less power today and I discovered one the plug wires was corroded and "green" where it plugs into the cap. Oddly enough they are pretty new wires. The current symptom was less than expected power and little tiny hesitations when driving. A replacement, albeit used, spark plug wire solved that problem it appears. I will know better when I drive to work tomorrow.

Anyway that was just misc ramblings. Back to why the van runs crappy when the timing is at factory specs. When it was idling today it was doing that "hunt" thing. I unplugged the retard vacuum hose from the distributer as Dennis suggested to test and the idle became normal. Plugging it back in left it normal. My old mechanic left that line unplugged from the distributer and plugged up the hose. I am assuming this solved the hunt problem. To me that seems like we are masking a different issue. What is that?

Thanks, Bryan


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