[V8] V8 healing itself!

[Ed Kellock]

And, instead of buying any GPS thingie, if you have a smart phone, there's
an app for that, several actually, if not more. I use Ulysse Speedometer.
It's got night made as well as a heads-up mode which displays backwards to
reflect off the windshield.

The V8q is a wonderful and mysterious machine, innit? I just surprised
myself by possibly overwhelming someone on Facebook who simply said
something like "it ran yesterday, won't start today".
On Apr 7, 2016 9:36 AM, "Dave Saad" <dsaadme at me.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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