On Thu, 31 Mar 1994, Randy Wilson wrote:
(regarding Jacob Zimmerman's problems with his TR6 Amanda)
> I can not tell you which years had both an advance and a retard can, and which
> years had just the retard. Your description is right for a retard only system.
>
> The lack of advance/retard would not cause your symptoms, but a disconnected
> vacuum line would. What you described is the classic symptoms of running
> lean, a vacuum leak.
>
Uh... Amanda is pinging, dieseling when shut off, and has a fast idle,
among other things. If she is supposed to have a vacuum retard, and it is
disconnected, my (perhaps naive) reasoning is that timing would be too
advanced under high vacuum conditions (e.g. at idle, or on overrun). And
I would think that *would* cause some or all of the symptoms. Have I
reasoned incorrectly, and if so, how?
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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