Hm. I did not take it apart. Cleaning it sounds like a good idea tho. I've been dorking with the car since I got home today. I tested the RPM relay. There's nothing wrong with it. Just an idiot check. I can see the timing advance when I rev it with the timing light. I disconnected the vacuum advance as Bill suggested. It takes a -lot- more to make it advance that way, which may indicate gooey bob-weights. I again, tinkered with the CO screw. I tried to richen it first. That made matters worse. The engine seeked and wouldn't settle down no matter how many other things I adjusted. When I revved it, it would stutter and drag it's way up the RPM scale. I started leaning it out, and I hade more power, consistently. However, something's not right now because it runs HOT, close to the safety margin when I drive it. It should be cooler with air flowing over the radiator. When it gets that hot, the power starts falling off again. The first time I drove it that way, before it really heated up, I had "highway power". As soon as I stopped to turn around, I lost a lot of it. The car is saying something...I'm not sure what though. --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx> wrote: > Did you dismatle and clean up the bob-weights in the distributor? They > can get "gluey" and cause the symptoms you describe. Very common to have > a car that's sat for some time, run fine till you give it a good blast, > then when you come back to it after it's cooled, it runs like a bag of > poo. That's what happenned to #2292 - read all about it at > www.ourdelorean.co.uk > > Martin > > cruznmd wrote: > > >I came home and ate some chow. Around 9 pm I decided I wanted to run > >it again to make damn sure I fixed things. Instead, the car was > >totally feeble, cold and hot. When revving, it seemed to be missing > >on a cylinder, or starving for fuel, I'm not sure which. > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=259538.3760361.5018013.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1712983/R=0/SIG=11u38u3s2/*http://hits.411web.com/cgi-bin/hit?pa ge=1374-105951838331032> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=259538.3760361.5018013.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1712983/rand=344807618> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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