Yes; this may be part of you sluggish acceleration problem. Information on this circuit is located at D:08:01 in the workshop manual. Actually if the connection to the solenoid is disconnected i.e.: vacuum at the distributor, you would have good acceleration with poor idle. DMC Joe Tech Information, DMC Joe Help Club, & Store "Summer Parts Sale" http://shopping.oraclesmallbusiness.com/dsvstore DeLorean Website Directory www.dmc.tv ----- Original Message ----- From: "cdrugly" <tgoodwin@xxxx> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 11:52 AM Subject: [DML] Does a tune-up ever go right? Not when I do it... > Alright. I did the tune up. New plugs, new rotor, new cap, new > wires... the whole shebang. Timing is good and my cold cranking is > excellent. Sitting in park, the engine purrs like a kitten. > > (Now the dreaded) However, performance became sluggish under load. On > the road, there's poor acceleration in all gears. The only thing I > can see that went awry during the whole process was a broken > electrical connection in the vacuum solenoid. I can't find any > information on this connection so I have no idea what it does or how > it affect vacuum advance. > > Question is, could this cause the sluggish acceleration? > > If not, can anyone offer up some suggestions? > > Travis