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[T3] Fastback troubles, engine still missing...update


<x-charset iso-8859-1>symptom:engine missing and breaking down. Runs great for 20 minutes then has
trouble moving off
the line and up through the gears; sputters and coughes until it gets full
throttle then it clears out...progressively worse, now wants to stall when
first going into gear.

anyway...70 fastback, automatic...
compression Test results: all spark plugs were too loose on removal, #1-110
pounds, #2-130 pounds, #3-120 pounds, #4-130 pounds

bought a tach/dwell meter but one of those cheap ones where you have to
double the V8 readings to obtain V4 readings:

Volts w/engine running (read off the 15 terminal of coil): 11.6
Dwell (read off the 1 terminal of coil) : 56   (new points, too high!)
RPM: the meter was telling me I was at 500 at idle and that can't be right,
I adjusted it up to
what the meter said was 600 but felt and sounded more like 1000.

new bosch super plugs installed - short test ride the miss nearly
disappeared...but came back as an almost stall...wish I could take it up on
the highway but don't have insurance yet. Still not confident enough to put
my wife behind the wheel... I'm going to try to get the dwell down below 50
by adjusting the points, then perhaps recheck the timing..

next step will be figuring out how to work the fuel Injection guage & the
volt/ohm meter I picked up, and go through the EFI...

-Chris

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