Re: Emissions...The saga continues.

[Fred Sacks <fredsacks@domain.elided>]

Zamini--

Thanks for your help.  I don't think that it's a head gasket failure. 
Not losing coolant and no oil in the radiator.  This really seems 
like more of a timing/ignition/electrical issue to me.  I believe 
that the brake and water lights coming on were not specifically 
related to those systems.  When they came on, the car lost power, as 
if fuel starved, or totally loosing spark, and then ran very rough 
with a need to keep rpm over 2000 to prevent stalling.

The following checks will be done this weekend, weather permitting. 
Unfortunately, I lost my garage to my son's rebuild.

-Full electrics, from battery connection to spark plug ends.

-O2 sensor check

-Timing--including checking the pickup at the flywheel

-Fuel filter replacement-if I can find one locally over the weekend.

-Compression check

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Fred Sacks
'89 Graduate

At 4:03 AM -0400 10/5/01, alfa-digest wrote:
>Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:56:15 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Zamani Zambri <zzambrimail@domain.elided>
>Subject: Re: Emissions...The saga continues.
>
>Hi Fred,
>
>I may have missed it, but did you ever do a compression test on your
>car? Is it loosing coolant? Regardless of mileage, it could be a
>headgasket failure if you have the popping sound. My Milano did the
>same thing and the head gaskets eventually failed, I was lucky not to
>have bent a rod.
>
>Zamani
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