spotting me
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Category: General Fiero Chat
Forum Name: Fiero Spotting
Forum Description: Seen a Fiero around town, wanted to know who's it was, this is the place
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Topic: spotting me
Posted By: marcelvdgn
Subject: spotting me
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 12:25am
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thanks to Blair, who spotted me and my SE in trouble and came back to help. Blair, thanks for the connector....... i put it in tonight and everthing is back to normal Marcel ------------- Marcel 86SE V6 Auto 85SE V6 Auto 85 2m4 soon to be sleeper 3.8sc 5 speed |
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Posted By: Blair
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 6:05am
| I'm glad all is well. That is the same thing that happened to Brian on tech day. |
Posted By: Bassman
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 7:49am
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Same connector?...lol...stupid clip ------------- Brian (Bassman) 86 GT Fastback 3.2L 2013 Mazda3 Sport GS SkyActive [IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u243/Bassman68/BassmanSignature.png"> |
Posted By: Car-2-Lo
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 8:34am
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Can you post a PIC of that CLIP, so we can look for.... if it ever happens to us? ------------- Johnny-B-Good 
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Posted By: Bassman
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 12:10pm
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There are two clips that connect together on the iginition coil...the heat makes the plastic brittle ------------- Brian (Bassman) 86 GT Fastback 3.2L 2013 Mazda3 Sport GS SkyActive [IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u243/Bassman68/BassmanSignature.png"> |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 12:26pm
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Added note, when this connector starts to come loose, you will notice the tach doing funky things, bouncing around. When it actually does pop off you will notice the tach drop to Zero long before the engines rpms drop to zero and you come rolling to a stop. In the past, I have just used a simple Zip Tie to make sure it stays in place. I have red zip ties that match the engine bay perfectly.
------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
Posted By: Bassman
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 4:25pm
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Or in my case, I was stepping on it, I redlined and died thinking I blew the engine or something...scared the sh*t out of me...lol. ------------- Brian (Bassman) 86 GT Fastback 3.2L 2013 Mazda3 Sport GS SkyActive [IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u243/Bassman68/BassmanSignature.png"> |
Posted By: marcelvdgn
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 6:57pm
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same as me.... i just left the stop sign at 56th and 232 heading east...1st gear right up to red, 2nd gear hit 5000rpm and everything quit.....coasted up the hills first turn and stopped in a dangerous spot. luckily wiggled stuff as blair came along and got her goin. ------------- Marcel 86SE V6 Auto 85SE V6 Auto 85 2m4 soon to be sleeper 3.8sc 5 speed |
Posted By: Bassman
Date Posted: 20 May 2008 at 7:35pm
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This happened when we had the tech day at Blair's which you were there at the time...and when I called in to Blair and described what happened they could not figure out why my engine raced up like it did...so now we all know:). ------------- Brian (Bassman) 86 GT Fastback 3.2L 2013 Mazda3 Sport GS SkyActive [IMG]http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u243/Bassman68/BassmanSignature.png"> |
Posted By: marcelvdgn
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 12:10am
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well i could have used some help tonight......car quite at 72 and king george. at first suspected i ran outa gas ( trying to do a craker on the milage chart...not)...... but no spark, suspect the ignition module. will have to check later. thanks to bcaa for the tow back home.
------------- Marcel 86SE V6 Auto 85SE V6 Auto 85 2m4 soon to be sleeper 3.8sc 5 speed |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 7:27am
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Well it might be time to do a full distributor rebuild. New module and pickup coil. If one is on the way out, the other is not usually far behind. ------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
Posted By: Roadfury
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 7:43am
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is this the little connector on that connects to the left of the ignition module then down to the coil? i had that little connecter rot off with part of the module still fused to it. stupid $5 cable cost me 50 bucks! ------------- 
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Posted By: marcelvdgn
Date Posted: 21 May 2008 at 10:54pm
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well......the ignition module was nt the problem. as dave said might have to rebuild it. Checked with lordco for a complete remanufactured distributor, club price was quoted over phone at $180.00. Not bad, concidering you get new cap, rotor, p/u coil, ignition module, bushing/bearings, gear and a 12 month warrantee. just might go the easy way out. ------------- Marcel 86SE V6 Auto 85SE V6 Auto 85 2m4 soon to be sleeper 3.8sc 5 speed |