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 Post subject: engine starts but runs rough
PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:02 pm 
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I had my car running really good and one day I was driving it around the parking lot here at home and It just lost power, so I got new points and a condenser and it is still running rough like its out of time and I can't fugue it out. Anyone with any ideas?


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 Post subject: Re: engine starts but runs rough
PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:23 pm 
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check the rockers arms and push rods

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 Post subject: Re: engine starts but runs rough
PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:23 pm 
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bad gas?

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 Post subject: Re: engine starts but runs rough
PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:07 pm 
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nah its not bad gas, just filled her up a few weeks ago and was running fine, i wanna say i have a bad plug wire


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 Post subject: Re: engine starts but runs rough
PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 9:56 am 
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Pull the wire and ohm it. And compare to the other ones. If your not scared of shock while it's running pull a wire off at a time and see which one doesn't make it die and that's the one that's bad.

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 Post subject: Re: engine starts but runs rough
PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 4:46 pm 
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Well its not the points and its not the plug wires, I'm starting to think that somebody may have put water in my gas tank because it was running fine and now it's not. There has been a few times I went to get something out of my trunk and it wasn't latched


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 Post subject: Re: engine starts but runs rough
PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:28 pm 
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Seafoam will dry your fuel out, try some of that first then keep troubleshooting. You really need to get your door locks and trunk latch sorted, people are f-ing a-holes and have no respect for other people's property nowadays.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:52 pm 
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burch1359 wrote:
nah its not bad gas, just filled her up a few weeks ago and was running fine, i wanna say i have a bad plug wire



Hmmmm!

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 Post subject: Re: engine starts but runs rough
PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:18 pm 
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Yeah, I think it is because I live where I work


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put a camera up and catch the bastard!

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