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Re: Engine Miss (archive)
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Posted by John Weese on July 16, 2000 at 21:04:03:

In Reply to: John Weese posted by VTDan on July 16, 2000 at 16:00:09:

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Did you find what the engine miss was? I've been trying to locate one myself. No luck yet.
TIA
Dan
02crew@shoreham.net
'76 & 73tii
and too many parts cars>>

Hi Dan,

Looks like we have alot in common with our Bimmers. To answer your question, "sort of"...I definitely had a vacuum leak at one point, then a carb problem, now it still misses however...but runs better! The problem is pointing to a worn distributor shaft or vacuum advance mechanism.

That makes alot of sense because I had a horrible time attemtping to set the dwell and the timing...the steel ball jumped around too much to suit me...I am trying to find another distributor currently. I plan to go with a pre-74 unit due to my '76 being "desmogged"...the more advance, the better.

Please let me know how you make out as well!

Regards,

John
'73tii
'76 '02
'74 '02 and lots of parts

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