Toby, Thanks for sharing your loose plug wire experience, and although this could be the cause of Erik's problem, I believe he has indicated that his problem is water related. BTW: It is not necessary to remove the intake manifold to remove or replace the distributor ignition wires. DMC Joe DeLorean Web Mall: http://www.geocities.com/dmcjoe/home.html DeLorean Website Directory www.dmc.tv ----- Original Message ----- From: "tmpintnl" <tobyp@xxxx> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 7:47 PM Subject: Re: [DML] 3 things appeared > Erik - I don't know how you are progressing with your problem, but I > thought that I would share an experience that I had with Winged1. I > had done a complete tune-up with all new parts (cap, rotor, wires, > plugs, and replaced the air filter element with a K&N unit), and had > about 500 trouble-free miles on the parts. Suddenly, I developed a > miss at certain RPM's, and a rough idle. My gas mileage dropped off > appreciably. Naturally, this all started to unravel in the middle of > a long-distance rally with the PNDC. Power was way down, which is a > bad thing for me. To make a long story a little shorter, one of the > plug wires had somehow come unplugged from the cap, and was just > sitting there, making an arcing contact occasionally. I plugged the > wire in firmly, and all symptoms ceased. Of course, this required > removal of the intake to get to the distributor to refit the wire, but > I don't think that the intake had anything to do with the problem. > > Toby Peterson VIN 2248 > Winged1 > > --- In dmcnews@xxxx, "erikgeerdink" <erikgeerdink@xxxx> wrote: > > My plugs, wires, cap and rotor were replace 2 years ago. I've only > > driven 1500 since then.