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Subject:Re: hesitation
From:Jim Felder
Date:Tue, 3 May 2005 08:49:23 -0500

When's the last time you changed plugs, points, wires, cap, rotor, and
ran some techron through the gas tank? The "low point" of my 2.1's life
was about 5 or 6 years ago, and I thought I just had an old car that
wasn't going to get any better--but I was wrong!

Jim

On May 3, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Rob Infante wrote:

> Hi.   Sun. night when I was driving home I started having  problems
> with
> hesitation.  I had just cleared a not-so-big hill, when I  could feel
> it sort of
> stuttering.  The tach never wavered, and it wasn't  too bad, but I
> could
> definitely feel it a bit.  It didn't do it every  second but it also
> never went a
> minute without doing it.  Just an annoying  stuttering feeling.  I
> drove it last
> night and didn't notice anything, but  this morning it feels like it
> might be
> back.  Its a little hard to tell as  it is all back roads to work, but
> at
> lunch I'm going to take it on the highway  and see if it happens
> again.  I can
> think of a number of things that would  cause this, but the fact that
> the engine
> never falters just seems strange.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks in advance
> rob infante
> 87 syncro westy
>