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Question: split second delay when starting. "hiccups" when driving down the road.

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fishunter, Bothell, WA, January 30, 2012, 13:45
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also last week engine just stopped for a few seconds, as i was rollng to side of road it mysterously fired up so I just popped the clutch and keptt on rolling back into the fast lane. Yikes!!

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    raiderron January 30, 2012, 20:48
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    Sounds like the first signs of an igniter problem at the distributor. The hard part about this is making it fail long enough to test and be sure. Sounds like it happens under load conditions so maybe a shop could duplicate with test equipment attached and driving. Have them attach a fuel pressure gauge to it and drive with it taped to windshield so can monitor when happens and then would know for sure if is ignition or fuel delivery problem but I am leaning toward ignition.

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    fishunter, February 02, 2012, 05:38
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    Sorry about that. I replaced the ignitor before that last posting. thank you for your recomendation. Didn't mean to waste anyones time.

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    raiderron, February 02, 2012, 10:13
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    Had you replaced the igniter when you posted the problem you have or replaced it after? If in fact that you did replace the igniter before you posted your problem then why did you not share that in your original post? If you replaced it after my answer then still recommend you having a shop roadtest with test equipment attached to it. So many times we have people requesting help on here and they do not give the complete history of what has been done or parts replaced to try and correct the problem and then our time trying to help is wasted.

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