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Re: [T3] General notes


What I WAS hearing (for some reason it's been awhile - maybe 2 weeks since
the last episode) was unquestionable run-on. I would turn off the engine and
the engine would turn over sluggishly, as few as once and at the highest
count 18 times, and on THAT episode I turned the key on and then off again
thinking maybe it was a contact problem, but it kept running, so I turned it
ALL the way on again and turned it off and it ran on twice and killed. Again
that was a grand total of 18 times: chug chug chug....

I couldn't hear if the switch was going off what with the engine turning
over. But every time it did stop, I distinctly heard the switch (power
relay) come off. It sounded as though the relay was switching off at a time
so close to the engine stopping I was second guessing myself as to whether
it was happening AFTERWARD) I couldn't tell, they were so close. I was
wondering whether something like a loose generator belt could cause
something like that...but that doesnt make any sense now that I looked at
the diagram. Keith and I tested the relay, and it looks good. It's still
baffling. Keith's final guess was maybe a leaky injector, but that would
reflect in my mileage.

The last time it happened was just before I went to Keith's. Now, on
occasion, I get the one chug and then the engine stops.

Since then, the weather has been cooler (if the engine was getting hot) and
the engine could have been (probably was) getting hotter than it should have
because a corner of the boot had pulled of the housing. That was repaired
yesterday. 

And that's the story.


-- 
Mike Wodkowski
72 SQBK
Brooklyn
wodkowski@mac.com

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