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Bucking Bronco at 5000rpm



david sez:
>The 1986 4kq I have been considering buying gets very smoothly to 5000rpm
>and then hesitates rather abruptly.  The owner says that in his experience a
>new distibutor cap will fix the problem.  Does this sound reasonable?

you could suggest that he spends a few bucks on a new cap and then you
could test the reasonableness of his theory fairly easily!  =8)

an abrupt hesitation is usually a fuel thing, either a computer cutoff
of the pump or the injectors slamming shut due to insufficient pressure.

frank

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