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Followup to breakdown in MD 200 1987

posted by  Aye Roll on  Mon Nov 11 03:28 CST 2002
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The good folks at Swedish Cars in Lorton VA report that my wife's breakdown was caused by the coil overheating to the point that "oil is coming out and it's too hot to touch." I'll buy that. Sounds consistent with the slow method in which it died. I had noticed that it had a non-Volvo coil and just assumed that it was probably the right one, that is one designed to run without a ballast resistor like American cars have. Apparently not. This was the car's first long trip since I got it- hard to say if that was the only problem but the fuel pressure test turned up no trouble.

In other news, the '91 I picked up yesterday ran *great* on the way home. It rode like a homemade go-kart, but that's for another story.
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: 86 244DL, 87 244DL, 88 744GLE: 625K total






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