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I still don't have a manual for my car. I don't know what I'm waiting for.

My car has been stalling too much so I have been biking for a week now. (My woman's car...my old 240 runs better and is more reliable!) I finally got my hands on the impulse sender (otherwise known as the Hall effect thingy...and get it at your dealer...well you have no choice). So I'm ready to start work but I know that damn distributor is back by the firewall, behind the engine.

Any tricks to getting at this? What tools will I need?

I should do some background here: the car suddenly stalls with little warning. Actually it now goes off...on...off..on in very rapid succession and then blamo or whisper it stops running and I coast to the side of the road. I sit there for maybe a minute or so and it starts right back up. Well it stalls too often now to tolerate. I have posted here before about this and many have told me it's the device I just bought that goes flakey.

One would guess that it is the fuel pump relay but often one is wrong(in fact on Cartalk they lost "Stump the Chump" when they told a woman to change the fuel pump relay and it did nothing.

So I just bought the impulse sender.

My car has 140k or so so a new fuel pump wouldn't hurt I suppose. I just might do what my grampa would do(though he would never have bought a fuel injected car), I'm going to pry the relay apart (if needed) and clean it with tuner bath and emery.

I'm kinda just talking here but any advice would be appreciated.

-JSBB