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Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:37:12 -0400
From: Dexter J <lamealameadingdongnopsamlamelame.org>
Subject: Re: Intermittent power loss after a service...


Salutations: Violent bucking when accelerating? -- J Dexter - webmaster - http://www.dexterdyne.org/ all tunes - no cookies no subscription no weather no ads no news no phone in - RealAudio 8+ Required - all the Time Radio Free Dexterdyne Top Tune o'be-do-da-day Andrews Crosby Haymes - Anything You Can Do http://www.dexterdyne.org/888/094.RAM Matt Gibson wrote: > > Just had my 1988 900 T16S serviced, and now I have a problem I've not had in > the previous year of ownership. Now, of course, I'm going to take it back > and ask them about it, but I wonder if anyone might recognise the problem > anyway, especially as I don't know whether it'll do it when they check it > out... > > At moderate speeds, I'm getting occasional, bursty and abrupt power loss. > Like, travelling at about forty mph (at around 2500 rpm), just every now > and again, the car will buck a little like the engine just drops power > completely. It'll happen a few times in a row, then everything carries on > as normal. It's got to be for less than half a second each time, and it'll > do it for maybe five seconds or so, and then be OK. > > I've only noticed it in the last five or ten miles I've done, and it only > seems to happen at speed: idling, the engine sounds absolutely wonderful. > Sometimes it'll be absolutley fine in exactly the same conditions, too. > > The only thing I notice is the bucking -- there's no associated sounds or > anything else that I can tell. It's almost like I'm just tapping the brake > quickly a few times -- and no, I'm not wearing really big shoes today ;-) > > Any ideas, folks? Something they might have disturbed during the service? > It's annoying me, because this dealer's always done great work for me, > apart from this one niggling thing that's appeared at the same time. The > service was done by the regular guy, who has two old 900s himself. It was > a straight interim service, except that they also replaced the cam case > cover gasket because it was leaking. > > Thanks, > > Matt > > -- > "It's the small gaps between the rain that count, > and learning how to live amongst them." > -- Jeff Noon

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