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Re: Limp-home mode on 90Q20V



At 07:40 AM 9/23/96 -0400, you wrote:

>we pulled out, and within a mile or so, the car was barely running.
>It idled high (1300), stuttered and stubmled, wouldn't break 3000 RPM,
>and seemed like it was going to strand us.  There was a small amount
>of black smoke coming out the pipe like it was running really rich.
>

Sounds like a distributor problem. My 87 5000sq did the same thing, and the
distributor turned out to be wet. I was able to limp mine home, as well!

Lenny Rosenbaum

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