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Engine fires but does not start in cold weather. 200 1987

posted by  Alexandria on  Fri Jan 30 10:10 CST 2015
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Ah, that's why there was nothing on it anywhere. And I have two AMMs. so I'll put in the other one and see. I also have a few possibly unrelated symptoms.

-the car runs hot sometimes. Not ever in the red, but close to it. We changed a radiator hose and it helped a bit but sometimes I'll look down and it's up there again. Then in five minutes or so it's regular.

-I read this thing about "bucking acceleration" at stop lights and mine did that yesterday but it made this weird cracking sound. Kind of like when you crack a glow stick to make it work just more metal sounding and louder.

-Sometimes it dies around corners as if it's out of gas (even w/ full tank).

When it used to do that, it was the distributor every time. I kept having to replace them when finally Ned, the volvo mechanic/genius, said that maybe putting these "little metal condoms" around the wires in the ECU wire harness would fix that. -it did. (I guess this story isn't really relevant, but if anyone has this problem in the future, that was a crazy life saver.)





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