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Friday night I looked under the hood and discovered that one of the leads from the distributor was loose. I must have been misfiring on one cylinder constantly! I'm surprised the car's working as well as it is! That would explain a LOT. I wonder just how long it's been like that. Sigh.
So I plugged it back in. I thought that fixed the problem, but no, now it's happening again. When I apply enough power ("enough" is purposefully vague -- the problem is very intermittent) the engine runs roughly, acceleration gets a bunch of surges, and sometimes it will even backfire. This seems to happen only during rain, but that correlation is too new for me to trust it much.
Nothing else under the hood is loose. I've reached the limit of my car-problem-solving abilities. So I get to take it in on Monday. I really hope the fix is simple.
So I plugged it back in. I thought that fixed the problem, but no, now it's happening again. When I apply enough power ("enough" is purposefully vague -- the problem is very intermittent) the engine runs roughly, acceleration gets a bunch of surges, and sometimes it will even backfire. This seems to happen only during rain, but that correlation is too new for me to trust it much.
Nothing else under the hood is loose. I've reached the limit of my car-problem-solving abilities. So I get to take it in on Monday. I really hope the fix is simple.
