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Hi Everybody
Have a niggling issue with our UK 1989 740 2.0ltr Auto(B200E engine). Need
some help please.
For years now the car had a slight tendancy to fire up on 3 cylinders
(sometimes 4 with a bit of a missfire on the 4th pot) which cleared ok by
blipping the throttle. A few months ago this got heaps worse and would not
just dissappear by blipping the throttle.
Car has been religiously serviced and maintained to a high standard from
new. Replaced plugs - genuine Volvo/Bosche, nope. Replaced king and HT
leads - one HT lead connection to the plug looked yucky - but nope.
Replaced the Distributor cap and Rotor arm (halfords own) and bingo all
seemed nuch better (actually this was hardly surprising as the car was then
still on its origonal Dist cap and rotor arm !)
That was 4 months ago in Oct 04. 2 weeks ago the firing on 3 started
again - Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Now we have been having some pretty damp weather
so will spray leads, king lead, coil, distributor cap etc with copious
volumes of WD40 and see what happens Wed morning - might drop lucky. Bye
the way all leads are sitting well on plugs, in dist cap etc.
Has anyone else experienced this. Please share experiences and what U did
to resolve.
Many thanks.
Andy
Have a niggling issue with our UK 1989 740 2.0ltr Auto(B200E engine). Need
some help please.
For years now the car had a slight tendancy to fire up on 3 cylinders
(sometimes 4 with a bit of a missfire on the 4th pot) which cleared ok by
blipping the throttle. A few months ago this got heaps worse and would not
just dissappear by blipping the throttle.
Car has been religiously serviced and maintained to a high standard from
new. Replaced plugs - genuine Volvo/Bosche, nope. Replaced king and HT
leads - one HT lead connection to the plug looked yucky - but nope.
Replaced the Distributor cap and Rotor arm (halfords own) and bingo all
seemed nuch better (actually this was hardly surprising as the car was then
still on its origonal Dist cap and rotor arm !)
That was 4 months ago in Oct 04. 2 weeks ago the firing on 3 started
again - Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Now we have been having some pretty damp weather
so will spray leads, king lead, coil, distributor cap etc with copious
volumes of WD40 and see what happens Wed morning - might drop lucky. Bye
the way all leads are sitting well on plugs, in dist cap etc.
Has anyone else experienced this. Please share experiences and what U did
to resolve.
Many thanks.
Andy