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Car Forum / Volvo Cars / January 2008power loss on 850 station
Hello friends, My baby is not running like she normally does. The engine is shaking especially with low revs, and it's much slower in acceleration. It's recently had a lot of maintenence including new spark plugs, air filter, distributor, but not the spark plug cables, could this be the problem? The car runs on LPG but the problem pertains also with petrol. Any ideas anyone? greetings TL > Hello friends, > My baby is not running like she normally does. The engine is shaking [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > greetings > TL It's possible a spark plug cable has failed, but I think it's more likely the firing order is messed up. Double check that the plug wires are in the correct order around the distributor. > It's possible a spark plug cable has failed, but I think it's more likely > the firing order is messed up. Double check that the plug wires are in the > correct order around the distributor. Thanx James for your reaction. I'm going for the failed plug cable, I can't see how it's possible that the order of the plug wires could just suddenly change like that on the distributor. <f27658bf-3903-473f-89f3-380398e1ef1f@f3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, >> had a lot of maintenence including new spark plugs, air >> filter, distributor > I'm going for the failed plug cable, I can't see how it's possible > that the order of the plug wires could just suddenly change like that > on the distributor. That is easy. When they changed the plugs they could easily switch two spark plug wires. That is an easy mistake to make. It is even easier to do when changing the distributor cap. Another one is to mess up the timing when installing the new distributor.  SignatureCheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA, USA Owned '67,'68,'71,'74,'79,'81,'87,'93,'95 & '01 Volvos. The '67,'74,'79,'87,'95 and '01 through European Delivery. http://rhodyman.net/homevo.html Well guys, I renewed the plug cables this morning and my baby is purring again. Thanx for your feedback. TL |
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