Problem with my EA

Dean and Jodie

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Dec 19, 2001, 6:05:22 AM12/19/01

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Hi all,

I bought an EA the other day, and I have a little problem. When I take off,
most ofthe time the car hesitates, and sometimes very badly. I took of out
of a side street onto a busy road , and almost had an accident. The car
lurched forward, almost stalled, took off again, then almost stalled again,
then took off properly, narrowly missing a collision. I took off from a
servo the other day, and it just didn't go anywhere, it just almost stalls.
It is a 3.9, with a 4 speed auto, and a sedan. I did an oil change as soon
as I got it home, and I have replaced the air filter. It only has the single
point injection. I also pulled the plugs yesterday, and they looked fine.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Dean

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Michael Morris

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Dec 19, 2001, 7:22:15 AM12/19/01

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Dean,
Did you take it for test drive before you bought it????

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Michael Pretlove

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Dec 23, 2001, 9:24:05 AM12/23/01

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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I bought an EA the other day, and I have a little problem. When I take
> off,
> > most ofthe time the car hesitates, and sometimes very badly. I took of
out
> > of a side street onto a busy road , and almost had an accident. The car
> > lurched forward, almost stalled, took off again, then almost stalled
> again,
> > then took off properly, narrowly missing a collision. I took off from a
> > servo the other day, and it just didn't go anywhere, it just almost
> stalls.
> > It is a 3.9, with a 4 speed auto, and a sedan. I did an oil change as
soon
> > as I got it home, and I have replaced the air filter. It only has the
> single
> > point injection. I also pulled the plugs yesterday, and they looked
fine.
> >
> > Any advice would be appreciated.

When you drive along say at 80km/h does it rumble a little... like perhaps a
cylinder is misfiring?

Check your spark plug leads... it may simply be that one has given up the
ghost.. its a cheap problem to fix.

Mike

Bobby Cerny

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Dec 26, 2001, 11:35:29 AM12/26/01

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"Michael Pretlove" wrote in message:

> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I bought an EA the other day, and I have a little problem. When I take
> > off,

Could be leads, battery, etc? check, clean and tighten same and anything
else that looks strange, check transmission fluid too.

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Cliffy

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Jan 5, 2002, 7:11:43 PM1/5/02

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Give Ign Components Electronics in melb a ring, they make a set of
coil wound leads that solve this problem, it is endemic in EA's, I
bought these leads for mine and it fixed the prob....

Cliff

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Kieron Murphy

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Jan 6, 2002, 8:13:53 PM1/6/02

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On 5 Jan 2002 16:11:43 -0800, cl...@myplace.net.au (Cliffy) wrote:

>Give Ign Components Electronics in melb a ring, they make a set of
>coil wound leads that solve this problem, it is endemic in EA's, I
>bought these leads for mine and it fixed the prob....

Can't say i've heard that this problem is endemic to EA's, but what do
these leads do Cliff?

Kieron

Fletch

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Jan 11, 2002, 8:03:22 AM1/11/02

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When was the last time the injectors were cleaned. I mean out of the vehicle
not just putting injection cleaner in the tank.
Centerpoint injectors do shit themselves.And crook injectors will give a
hesitation off the line. Just a thought

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