Engine Probs, But Much Rejoicing...

[Ben Patterson <bpatterson@stanford.edu>]

Hey there -

	Well, thanks to 'Chung, TBerk, Nate Pierce and Tberk's 
neigbor Al, I have a tranny back in my '86 16v and I'm driving the 
vixen warrior to work. It's so much better than the Cutlass Sierra 
I've been driving in the meantime - I thought the torture would never 
end!! heh heh... Anyways, aside from almost dying because I forgot to 
tighten the lugs before I test drove the bastard, it's running great. 
Tranny is hella stiff in through the first 3 gears, really chunky 
compared to my poor self-machined dead one, and the sport clutch is 
going to give me a left leg the size of Texas... (grin)
	Here's the latest issue I've gotta resolve though. I swapped 
out the distributor/hall sender in the hopes that it would solve the 
problem I've had for the last couple of months. When I start the car 
up, 75% of the time it will idle at 2K rpm, and be ridiculously 
rough. Other times, the tach will jump to 6 or 7K and the car will 
feel fine, no missing, etc. but the gauges are all jacked. When I 
pulled the old distributor there was oil in the cap, so I would have 
had to change it anyway, but it's pissing me off that this problem is 
still going on. The next thing on my list to change out is the knock 
sensor, which I'll do tonight. Anyone got any ideas? The car runs 
great once it is started with the gauges reading correctly (usually 
takes a few tries) and it has no issues beyond this. (Well, there is 
that downpipe with the cracked flex joint which is fuming me out of 
the car - gotta drive the bastard with the windows down till I get 
that done this weekend. heh heh...)
	Anyone got any ideas?

			And there was much rejoicing...

				Ben Patterson, 86' 16v back in da biz...
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