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Ok... first things first. A year ago my car was running fine power wise, but the idle was erratic and would stall unless you gave it gas. I let the car sit for a year before working on it again about a week ago. I replaced the spark plugs w/ some Autolite ones that were not pregapped, so did that manually best we could to .8mm (my car is a 1986 Turbo 9000). Everything we replaced was:
Air filter
Spark Plugs
Spark Plug wires
Distributor cap
Fuel Filter
We managed to start it after some hassling around, & I noticed immediately that the it idled well, at about 1000rpm. When I put it in gear to move the car, I realized that the car had no power, and would not even move unless you got it to like 4000rpm. if you release the clutch fully, the car sorta clunks & then stalls unless it is on a completely flat surface. I can smell gasoline (petrol, in uk?) in the exhaust from the car, so I think it's not burning the fuel correctly?
There are two things under the hood that I noticed- there is a piece of plastic housing that sits right next to the distributer cap (the cap actually touches this piece of plastic). It was snapped off, and we had to attach the wires back manually. What does this control? I am not 100% sure we wired them back (3 small wires) correctly, but wondered if this can affect combustion anyway? also there is a wire that runs to a screw that screws in below the distributor cap? We assumed it was a ground-wire and rewired it to the body?
Could the problem simply be old gasoline/water in the tank that is causing this burning problem?
Also, a vaccum hose from the throttle body that runs to a plastic connector labeled "Carb" broke off, but we put it back on with no effect?
Thanks a lot, and sorry for such a humungous post.
-Matt
Air filter
Spark Plugs
Spark Plug wires
Distributor cap
Fuel Filter
We managed to start it after some hassling around, & I noticed immediately that the it idled well, at about 1000rpm. When I put it in gear to move the car, I realized that the car had no power, and would not even move unless you got it to like 4000rpm. if you release the clutch fully, the car sorta clunks & then stalls unless it is on a completely flat surface. I can smell gasoline (petrol, in uk?) in the exhaust from the car, so I think it's not burning the fuel correctly?
There are two things under the hood that I noticed- there is a piece of plastic housing that sits right next to the distributer cap (the cap actually touches this piece of plastic). It was snapped off, and we had to attach the wires back manually. What does this control? I am not 100% sure we wired them back (3 small wires) correctly, but wondered if this can affect combustion anyway? also there is a wire that runs to a screw that screws in below the distributor cap? We assumed it was a ground-wire and rewired it to the body?
Could the problem simply be old gasoline/water in the tank that is causing this burning problem?
Also, a vaccum hose from the throttle body that runs to a plastic connector labeled "Carb" broke off, but we put it back on with no effect?
Thanks a lot, and sorry for such a humungous post.
-Matt