[V8] V8 healing itself!

[Dave Saad]

I would guess the speedo problem is the sender. Easy enough to test - set the climate control to read speed. If it is 0 then the sender is suspect. If you want to fully diagnose you will have to put a meter on the sender output wire and that means exposing the wire at the cluster connector. A PITA for sure but better to do it before sending the cluster out for repair.

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> On Apr 7, 2016, at 6:01 AM, Acadianlion <Acadianlion at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think sometimes it's just a bit of patience.  Right now it seems that way with my V8.  Well, almost, anyway.  I wrote here before that I was having some stumbling or mis-firing since I put the car back on the road the day after Christmas. The V8 is not intended to be the normal daily driver in the depths of winter. We have the 100 Avant for that. But on Christmas eve the fuel pump in the 100 died and the car was towed to the wrench. Since we'd have no car for four or five days the V8 was put back on the road.  (It promptly suffered an alternator failure as payback to me for not driving the car very much over the past three years, but I've forgiven it for that.).
> 
> We have had a remarkably open winter here. It's been neither awfully cold, nor have we had much snow, so the V8 has been at least available through the winter and on pretty nice, or at least nicer days, I've enjoyed driving it.  In case you have forgotten, I really, REALLY like my V8.  But I digress.
> 
> Now, that stumbling/misfiring thing.  Most under load and going up hills it would feel a bit as if at least one cylinder was misfiring, or perhaps more than one.  Well, of course, the obvious culprits are distributor caps, spark plugs and/or wires.  So I dug out the records for the car under me.  I had wires, caps, rotors and plugs replaced just after buying the car. That was roughly thirty thousand miles and eight years ago.  And the wires, plugs, rotors and caps were all the very highest of "high priced spread":  all Bosch or OEM!  OUCH!
> 
> So I have gone shopping for the stuff as I know I can, given a decent mildish day, do plugs, wires and caps myself.  OUCH! Again.  So I decided I'd do the plugs first. The car has sat, largely undriven, or sporadically started and driven a few miles...like one or two...since fall of 2013.  I did pickle the fuel, and filled the tank when I put the car in the garage, but I know what gasoline can do, so I figured it was the plugs.
> The best deal for Bosch plugs for this car that I found, by the way, was Amazon since I have Prime free shipping.
> 
> Now, as it happens I have begun training with a new group in a small private gym that is just about thirty miles, across pretty open, hilly and rurual roads, so four days a week I'm driving the car sixty miles.  And the stuttering/fumbling/misfiring has become very muted to non-existent.  Every day I drive the car, it gets better.  So it appears for now at least that my running problem with the engine was fouled plugs and just giving it a basic, Maine version of an Italian tune-up may have cured that problem, and I have NOT so far done anything.
> 
> Naturally, I have had one stone bruise that has decided suddenly to spread in a six inch wide "u" up the drivers side of the windshield.  It's one of those "granite ball bearings" that they use to "sand" the roads here in winter, and now facing mandatory state inspection this month, I have to get the windshield replaced.  I have an appointment for the windshield magician to come here next Wednesday and they say the windshield for the car is no problem. We'll see.  The glass company is Safelight, so they probably just make one when they need it. It's an insured claim and will cost me fifty bucks.
> 
> Now, if I could only get the speedometer to work consistently. I am really tired of checking speed by tachometer.  It's sooo easy for this car to go ninety in a forty mile zone.  I'm thinking of getting a gps-based speedometer once the new windshield is in: about forty bucks and far preferable to shipping the cluster out to Hollywood speedometer or someone like that and losing use of the car all summer.  I'm not sure how many bucks I want to throw at the speedometer issue now, as I have a hunch the issue is temperature related and once the ambient temp here is higher....say well above freezing...the speedometer will resume reading consistently. It's done that before.
> 
> Gotta get the wrench to look at the timing belt when it goes in for inspection, too....not quite half way to replacement by miles, but by age.....dunno so much!
> 
> Roger
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