[V8] problems solved.....well, SOME of them

[Luis CaifanSC]

Roger that road sounds wonderful! Know anyone with a gopro camera that
would let you borrow it to record a vid? :)

On Thursday, June 30, 2016, Roger M. Woodbury <rmwoodbury at fairpoint.net>
wrote:

> I've been remiss in not reporting that the roughness in the V8 that
> occurred during or right after its long slumber has been remedied.  I
> thought it might be a fouled plug and was all set to rip out the plugs and
> replace them. But the plugs aren't very old and were the correct Bosch
> plugs so I was a bit reluctant to do anything especially since the car was
> scheduled to go to the wrench for tires and a new inspection sticker in
> early May.  So the car went and after a bit the trouble with the roughness
> was located. One distributor cap was cracked. Now that makes me really
> pissed because both caps are quite new...as in less than 45,000 miles...but
> now with the cap replaced the car SINGS!
>
> The V8 is now (during the summer) the daily driver.  Three days a week I
> drive to Winterport to train with my powerlifting group. That's a thirty
> mile drive entirely on two lane, rural, hilly and twisty roads.  The vast
> majority of the time I encounter at most half a dozen other cars going
> either way the entire distance.  One of the roads that is wonderfully hilly
> has been freshly paved. The V8 LOVES that stretch!
>
> My intermittent speedo is mostly working now.  Usually it will not work
> until I have covered two or three miles but then it works fine.  Tested and
> found the sending unit was getting signal so the only thing left is
> something annoying in the cluster.  For now I am not spending ten cents to
> chase the phantom.
>
> But just when things were rosy, the car has developed an annoying sort-of
> skip in the rear axle under some acceleration. At first I thought it might
> be the half-shaft as it seemed to do it mostly when I turned left.  But
> several times I have experienced the sensation....it's a sort of
> shudder...upon acceleration going straight ahead.  It all appears when the
> car is in certain attitudes, such as steep climbing from a stop sign, then
> I feel this shudder in the rear.  I am worried it might be the torsen
> differential clutches or some draconian evil lurking back there. For now my
> plan is to go carefully and next spring when the car goes back to the
> wrench for it's inspection sticker, we'll chase that one.  Assuming it
> doesn't just stop someplace and leave me walking!
>
> Roger
>
>
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