POS carb
06-17-2005, 04:17 PM
in the never ending slew of problems with this car it decided one day to start preigniting but it's weird...
if I crank the car over it struggles like when the battery is dead, the tach flies up, everything dims. If I try it once or twice more it cranks right up. If I flood the engine prior to starting it will crank normal. If I disconnect the coil-to-distributor wire it cranks normal. It definately seems the engine is preigniting somehow
the funniest part:
sometimes after I shut off the car (normal, no dieseling, smoke, or smells) and turn the key back to the on position the cylinders fire and the engine will spin backwards maybe 1/2 a revolution but it's a hard jolt if the car is in gear! (i.e. if I'm in a forward gear the car will lurch back, and vice-versa)
I'm thinking I need a new distributor or something
I have an MSD blaster coil with the stock distrib.
I already swapped the starter.
if I crank the car over it struggles like when the battery is dead, the tach flies up, everything dims. If I try it once or twice more it cranks right up. If I flood the engine prior to starting it will crank normal. If I disconnect the coil-to-distributor wire it cranks normal. It definately seems the engine is preigniting somehow
the funniest part:
sometimes after I shut off the car (normal, no dieseling, smoke, or smells) and turn the key back to the on position the cylinders fire and the engine will spin backwards maybe 1/2 a revolution but it's a hard jolt if the car is in gear! (i.e. if I'm in a forward gear the car will lurch back, and vice-versa)
I'm thinking I need a new distributor or something
I have an MSD blaster coil with the stock distrib.
I already swapped the starter.