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nathan944 nathan944 is offline
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Louisville KY
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Strange problem on 83N/A

I drove my car today because it was nice here and it did great all day, until tonight. I started to notice that it would "miss" or jolt a tiny bit every so often but not much at all. It kept getting worse as the night went on and finally started to buck violently upon acceleration at random times. I decided to take the car home and as I was getting off at the interstate exit the rpms dropped and then died. I was able to coast to a gas station. There I tried to start it again a few times and nothing but starter, no attempt to fire at all. I called a tow truck and was waitng for it when I decided to try to start it agian and it fired right up. (this was about 30 minutes after it died.) I was able to drive it home, with the same miss/jolt/buck symptoms. It is now in my garage waiting for you guys to tell me how to fix it.

ALSO a few things that may or may not have anything to do with this.

1. I ran the gas tank pretty low today (1/8 tank maybe), I try not to do this but I did this time.
2. I spayed down the motor early this morning to clean it up a little, but I took great care not to spray any electricals. It also ran fine all day long until the problem started tonight (i do this routinely.

Thanks
Nathan
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1983 944 Copenhagen Blue

MODS: ENGINE: Firebraid 9mm plugwires. Weltmeister Throttle Cam, Dansk exhaust. lo-temp thermostat & fan switch, aluminum radiator. SUSPENSION: H&R 250lb springs, KYB GR-2 struts(front) Bilstien Shocks(rear), Racing Dynamics strut bar, APPEARANCE: 15" Phone Dial wheels, a-pillar w/ VDO H2O and volts gauges.

1987 944-S Montego Black
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Old 02-26-2005, 09:21 PM
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