Re: 1984 505S...now what?

fred smith (peugfan@juno.com)
Mon, 01 Feb 1999 11:57:32 EST

If your spark plug wires have more than 100,000 miles on them, dump 'em.
Your symptoms sound just like what plagued me for ages (although
sporadically) until I put new wires on. Here's my motto again: do the
easy stuff first.

On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:53:38 -0700 "Robert L. Jensen"
<rltj@telusplanet.net> writes:
>Man,
>
>This is really starting to piss me off.
>
>The "surging" problemm just won't quit.
>
>I've replaced,
>
>- the in tank pump (the main pump is still whining, I guess I may as
>well change it to)
>- the O2 sensor (the thing runs great when it's cold but bucks like
>mad when the guage is halfway.
>
>- the cap and rotor (I thought it might be a simple ignition problem
>to begin with), also checked all plugs wires..simple ignition stuff.
>
>The symptoms are as follows,
>
>- as I mentioned it runs great when its cold, as it warms up it starts
>to buck under load only..it idles great and revs great when it is out
>of
>gear, as soon as I start out in any gear the car starts to buck. It's
>also inconsistent, I can run the car half a day with no problems then
>the problem just appears. Another thing, it is just sucking down gas.
>
>Although now that I thik about it, it does idle rough when the problem
>is happening. It has a 1 second cycle to the sound..whine off whine
>off
>whine off. Kind of like the sound that the main fuel pump makes when
>it
>is cavitating.
>
>I dunno...timing advance, mixture, bad injectors, vacuum problems, all
>of the above.......??????
>
>Thoughts from the crowd?
>
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