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Messed around with the little beast for most of the day today. I checked all the plugs, they all have a greyish, almost white look to the electrode and metal dohickey, all uniform in appearance no wear, still look new. An inline plug check light didn't appear to have any misses when installed on 5, 4, 2 and 1 wires; nice strong flash.
Holding off on the compression test for a remote starter, should have by this weekend.
Not sure how to check the O2 sensor without cutting down the wires, I know there's got to be a less invasive way of testing it. Any suggestions?
I'm going to check the phone book tomorrow to see if there's anywhere local to get her smog tested, What numbers or results should I be looking for?
Also, not sure about where the balst resistor to the distributor would be. There's nothing from the coil to the distributor, or anything in the wires leading to the coil.
I did find what looked like an in-line fuse on the smaller wire coming from the battery at about the 2 foot mark in the trunk, I cut off the shrink wrap and noticed it was rather corroded up. I went to the power distro . block on the firewall and saw that it connected to 2 red wires that disappear into the wiring harness and "ahh haa" one of the red wires had been viciously mauled by a malicious mouse (guess he did more than just build a giant nest in my blower). The wire was only about 1/3 chewed up, but I was really hoping I found my nemesis. After fixing up the mouse eaten wire, I connected the red wires' terminal to the primary battery hub on the distro. block, to bypass the possibly faulty in-line fuse.
Long story short, the same as before. She ran for about 3-5min., just long enough for me to start feeling smug then she started up with the miss again. AAARRRHHHH!!!
Next, replace the in-line fuse, probably with one for a stereo amp. system. Any idea what amp. it should be? Replace the TPS, even though I'm 98% certain this is not it.
Rick, I got real excited about the ignition control module, thinking "this sounds like it could be IT". then I checked the Bentley and discovered that the ignition control unit was only used on 4-cylinder engines with TCI-i ignition systems. Still, I went and had a look, nope, none there. It's all controlled through the DME, which as stated above I've replaced to no avail.
I know it's probably something stupid simple and probably cheap, I just can't figure it out?
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