From: snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (gerald2003r)
Did you do something to get it to run well? Did you find a final solution? If not and it ran well today it sounds like an electrical connection to me... Heat and moisture can change the way contacts adhere to each other. Cleaning the electrical contacts on older cars I think will help allot. There are many and some are weatherized but some are not. It's a chore for the older car person. They are making it easier as time goes on with weatherized connectors but most were meant for vital connections in the 1990's 2000's. shame really! Gerald ======= only joker in the deck is that when before my dad died, he had a wreck with it in 1996. he pulled out and it took the hit on the driver's front fender and wheel. it was not a head on crash.
i also know that a hard mechanical jolt from a wreck can do strange things to cars that you normally don't think about. electrial connectors get jarred. wires get pinched or pushed into an area that will cause the coating to rub off of them after many miles of travel. not the usual stuff.
(see p.s. post)
i guess i'm keeping the car for memories, normally, not my style.
but, in answer to your questions, no, i haven't done anything to the car other then clear the computer memory in order to make sure there were no left over codes from something that may have been stuck in there.
again, used the car to go to the local VA clinic and did some running around the city. about 50 miles - ran great. but the temp is only in the low 70's. that is what i want to keep my eye on- the raising temps
- and see if the problem comes back.
~ curtis ======= p.s. post......
unrelated - but interesting - i had an accident investigator on the police force tell me that in an accident, that a vehicles involved in an accident may get hit three times are higher - depending on the speed at the time. i asked him to explain this to me.
here is what he said.
let's say you are rear ended. you get hit by the vehicle from behind - that impact number one.
as your vehicle is push forward, the vehicle that hit you transferred part of it's energy into you and for a split second, it slowed down and you moved away from the vehicle behind and there is a distance between you.
now, impact number two - after your impact, your vehicle is going to slow down and the vehicle behind is still traveling at a faster rate than you are - assuming you were stopped. so, it will ram you again, transferring more energy and causing your vehicle to shoot forward.
impact number three - basically the same as impact number two.
where this comes into play is personal injury. the body is responding from the initial hit and then is struck again, and again, very fast. while your body is responding to the first hit, it get hits again. this causes the body to snap around and give the whiplash effect, that you hear of.
where you really notice this effect that he was describing is at a train switching yard. you have see and hear the boxcar as it hit the car is joining up to a couple of times at least.
knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional "Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
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