Tom400CFI
Newbie
This was odd:
160K mile, clean, box stock '98 305/5 speed. Generally runs and drives flawlessly (if not gutlessly). Yesterday, driving home from work, I notice some bucking at light throttle. "Huh. Distributor must be out of alignment", I thought. Weird that it would come out of alignment, but the symptom was identical to when the dist isn't "timed" to the crank p/u. Any way, I come up the 13 mile climb to my neighborhood no prob, get off, drive through the neighborhood no prob, come to a stop sign, it dies. Huh? I crank it and I get that not-so-good sounding crank when the cam or dist is out of time where it cranks, "kicks" back against the starter cranks more, repeat. No fire.
Since I'm on a hill, I decide to roll start, so I get it rolling, llet clutch out, engine spins, I get some lurching and back firing....and that's weird....why is there no oil pressure!? I push in the clutch, pull over call my wife for a tow. Get out, check oil, plenty. Hmmm.
Not looking for help, more so sharing an odd one. I'll update. Figured that some might enjoy theorizing, bench diag'ing.
160K mile, clean, box stock '98 305/5 speed. Generally runs and drives flawlessly (if not gutlessly). Yesterday, driving home from work, I notice some bucking at light throttle. "Huh. Distributor must be out of alignment", I thought. Weird that it would come out of alignment, but the symptom was identical to when the dist isn't "timed" to the crank p/u. Any way, I come up the 13 mile climb to my neighborhood no prob, get off, drive through the neighborhood no prob, come to a stop sign, it dies. Huh? I crank it and I get that not-so-good sounding crank when the cam or dist is out of time where it cranks, "kicks" back against the starter cranks more, repeat. No fire.
Since I'm on a hill, I decide to roll start, so I get it rolling, llet clutch out, engine spins, I get some lurching and back firing....and that's weird....why is there no oil pressure!? I push in the clutch, pull over call my wife for a tow. Get out, check oil, plenty. Hmmm.
Not looking for help, more so sharing an odd one. I'll update. Figured that some might enjoy theorizing, bench diag'ing.