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Well...
The last 1000 miles or so I've had an intersting problem, shed cut out completely for a second
or 2, or maybe 10-12, then cut in and be fine, tach still worked so it was injection and the symptom
of a dirty trigger contact problem. BUT cleaning them and in fact swapping them out made no
difference. So I checked grounds and the connector to the Dist as this is a classic problem and then
I noticed something... push the Dist to one side and lose 2 cyls.. release and get them back!! now
wiggeling the connector didnt do this so off came the cap and I found that I could get significant
play in the distributor shaft.. WALLA!
Combine that with worn nylon riders on the contacts and you have problems. So I bent the stationary
half of the contacts in just a little to make up for the wear and things worked fine. Now my dist
really needs rebulding (Jim do you put new bushings in these??) as I imagine the point gap floating
around isn't helping keep everything in perfect tune but shee seems to run right.
Another thing I discovered... the cold idle was getting unreasonably rich So I pulled the aux air
regulator and found they are not all created equal! All of mine are set to maximun air but that
amount at the end of the adjustment
range varies quite a bit. So I chose the best flow and in it went.
Lastly another question for Jim or other Guru's, at idle the Gen cant keep the voltage up above
12.8-13V or so as its not turning fast enough (even with the lights off), and as Jim has stated in
the past these systems run rich with a low voltage condition, so, is this why we get the rich
;"Loping" idle?? any tricks I may have missed to lean it out (just at cold idle)?? once you get it
up to 1200 RPM or so the voltage goes over 14 and all is well.
Hmmm.. been a while since I had to tweak with my injection!
Keith
parkkj@crd.ge.com
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