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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ Finally made it to 5th gear :)

Posted by: Kerrys914 Nov 17 2003, 07:57 PM

Took my 914 to work today. On the way in I took the longer and slower route. It has been doing fine the 4-5 times I have driven it to work.

I decided today to hop onto I295 and give her a go

As I shifted into 5th the engine died (2-3 seconds) and then picked back up. It ran fine for the next 5-10 mins. I then slowed down and merged onto I64..Back upto 5th gear and the same thing happened..Tach goes to zero and the engine dies again (2-3 seconds) and then picked back up????

Any thoughts? I guess I will try tomorrow and see if It does it again.

Cheers
Kerry

Posted by: Brad Roberts Nov 18 2003, 03:12 AM

Something we havent discussed:

Fuel pump. Like the pressure relief valve is letting the fuel go buy and not keeping pressure in the lines. Giving you the feeling that the car is running out of gas.

I really have No idea. Just throwing out scenerios.

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Posted by: type47 Nov 18 2003, 08:30 AM

coming back from the mid-atlantic ramble, my fan belt knocked the coil wire off. maybe a short or bad continuity/broken wire?

Posted by: mike_the_man Nov 18 2003, 08:35 AM

My coil was loose in the bracket, slid out, and one of the wires grounded out. That killed the car pretty quick. Make sure that the coil is tight and not moving around, causing a wire to ground. Probably not it, but something quick and easy to check.

Good luck,

Posted by: redshift Nov 18 2003, 08:43 AM

When I get electrical gremlins, I go postal, and clean every contact, and every connector, in every system, nose-to-tail...

I use cans of contact cleaner, emory boards, paper, toothbrushes, toothpics, q-tips, and this dielectric grease that comes in a little tube.. and loses the label when the glue solves..

Gluggling, and 'feels like ignition cutouts' can happen with bad spark wire sets, TPS, bad fuel pressure, iffy sparks, wrong heat range plugs, misgapped anything, broken advance, MPS misdialed, bad gas... combinations...

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I just wanted to use that.

I missed the frontend of this.. I think.

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