Back On The Road Again!!

[Donne Trav]

After installing a new fuel pump, fuel filter, fuel pressure regulator,
considering replacing injectors and asking a lot of you all about OPTI
possibilities, guess what?? A BAD SPARK PLUG WIRE was causing the
"miss", described in my prior Threads. The wire was "arcing" to the
exhaust manifold. If it had been for the "overcast" clouds, I would not
have noticed it. With the addition of the new items, my '94 has never run better! ALL IN PART TO YOU GUYS. MANY, MANY THANKS!

 

[formul8]

Great to hear!

Sometimes it is something very simple. Mine had a bad #1 spark plug because the previous owner used el cheapo Autolite's.

 

[John Robinson]

Here is a valuable lesson for all of us to learn. When working through a problem cover the basics first and do not jump at the expensive items because you have heard horror stories about them an the cost to fix. I remember way back when disk brakes started to appear on cars. The mechanics had people convinced that you could not just do a simple brake job on a car with disk brakes. The usual story was you have to replace the calipers and rotors and god only know what else and oh the cost was in the stratosphere. I had a friend who was all upset because his new car had disk brakes and he was going to convert the car back to drum brakes. I mentioned that at Le mans during the 24 hour race it was not uncommon for the crew to replace the pads on the disk brakes and the driver would then go out and do 200 MPH on the Mulsanne straight and stomp on the brakes to slow down to 30 MPH. He still was not convinced so knowing that he bragged about how much company flying he had to do I reminded him that every time the plane he was in landed his life depended on the disk brakes of the plane to stop it and by the way the car brakes were an offshoot of the aircraft development.

Now I know that is a long winded story but It points out how we can be panicked into believing anything that is different must not be as good as the old design. I will go away now before I start on what the public thought of radial tires when we were racing them in the 50's

 

[formul8]

How about when EFI first came out?

"You will never be able to modify it!"