Hi from down Under.
Beast starts fine but is sluggish to respond to throttle when taking off from standing start. Is this fuel pressure?
Also, warms up ok and idles smoothly when in drive. Drop it into nuetral and it wobbles all over the show and is rough. Have tried new leads and plugs. Next please? Injectors? O-rings?
Thank you,
Paul
PS Athol. congrats on boy, hope you are all well.
I had the same kind of a problem in my -87 240 GL Injection, and it was caused by worn distributor cap and rotor arm. The problem was especially bad in damp weather, but occurred also during dry weather. "PM" kirjoitti viestissä news:3f128774 snipped-for-privacy@news.iprimus.com.au...
I had similar problem on my 1985 240GLT. It even started to backfire and this caused a hose to blow off the intake side. I was convinced I had positive crankcase pressure caused by a bad piston/valve. So convinced I even took the head off only to reveal bright clean valve seats and all pistons just fine. I put everything back OK, restarted and just the same backfire. I could only do about
60mph. So I started with a new distributor cap and rotor arm. I put the rotor arm on outside the shop as it was easy. That was it, end of problems, no more backfire. I examined the rotor arm under a microscope and saw a black burn track going to the 'heel' of the rotor arm, 180° away from the proper contact. Hence the BACKFIRE. How bloody simple!!Regards Chris with 20:20 hind sight.
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