soulsproxy
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For the past couple of months since I purchased this car I've been dealing with some minor problems, but now a new one has cropped up, and I'm not sure what it could be at this point. Yesterday morning, the car was working just fine. I had just installed a new dizzy rotor, the night before, as the old one had been having trouble staying put. After leaving work, about 5 hours later I noticed that the car was having trouble climbing the hill to get on to the freeway, and then once I got on level ground it had trouble shifting into 3rd gear/going above 60. The closer I got to home the worse the problem got until it seemed as if every time I brought the car to a complete stop it was going to die, but it never did.
After getting home I checked the dizzy cap/rotor (I had a problem in the past where water got into the cap, and caused a similar condition), but there was no play in the rotor. I did notice that the cap looked a little warn, and that there were stress marks around some of the metal nodes. I ended up replacing the cap, but the problem persisted.
The next morning, with the help of my uncle, we did some more diagnostics. We checked to see if any of the vacuum tubes had a crack, they didn't. We checked to see that each of the sparks were firing correctly, which they were, and then we checked to see if we had a constant pressure among the cylinders, which we did (around 185-190). We did noticed that one of the seals had failed causing one of the spark plugs to be covered in a fair bit of oil, but my uncle ruled out that it would cause this big of a problem. He also noted that the spark plugs seemed to be burning normally.
After all of this we still did not find any real problem, and now are turning to the web to get some other opinions. I have also recorded a video of what we are experiencing.
After getting home I checked the dizzy cap/rotor (I had a problem in the past where water got into the cap, and caused a similar condition), but there was no play in the rotor. I did notice that the cap looked a little warn, and that there were stress marks around some of the metal nodes. I ended up replacing the cap, but the problem persisted.
The next morning, with the help of my uncle, we did some more diagnostics. We checked to see if any of the vacuum tubes had a crack, they didn't. We checked to see that each of the sparks were firing correctly, which they were, and then we checked to see if we had a constant pressure among the cylinders, which we did (around 185-190). We did noticed that one of the seals had failed causing one of the spark plugs to be covered in a fair bit of oil, but my uncle ruled out that it would cause this big of a problem. He also noted that the spark plugs seemed to be burning normally.
After all of this we still did not find any real problem, and now are turning to the web to get some other opinions. I have also recorded a video of what we are experiencing.
