Help - my ' 86 is misfiring badly.

Guest · Apr 5, 2003

Hi folks

I' m obviously a newbie and have a problem. I put my 49,000 mile ' 86 cab in the garage last autumn and now when I started it today I couldn' t get it to run properly. I let it warm up properly and when I went to take it out I couldn' t get it up a hill and just made it back to the house

The car had new consumeables, including plugs, last year and was running like a dream but I changed the oil anyway. I do about 1500 miles a year

From a list that could include plugs, injectors, valves etc. can anyone make an educated guess so that I can at least start somewhere sensible.

Many thanks.

Nick Moss · Apr 6, 2003

If the car was running fine when you put it away, then the problem is almost certainly fuel related. Also just check that a mouse hasn' t got to any of the wiring around the electronics under the seat.

Guest · Apr 6, 2003

Nick
Thanks, you were probably right. I checked the plugs and they seemed fine. Gradually it got better today to the point where I was confident about taking it back on the road and then a few minutes into the test drive I got that characteristic push in the back from the engine working properly. It' s now idling beautifully again.
Thanks for your help.
It' s great to see such a forum exist with a section just for 3.2' s. The reason I left the club was that the 3.2' s became somewhat marginalised between the older classics and those new massive water cooled things.
If I had known earlier I might even have made it to yesterdays meet.
Cheers

Guest · Apr 7, 2003

Roger[

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What I want to know is, how the hell can you own a 911 and put only 1500 miles a year on it?????[

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Peter

Nick Moss · Apr 8, 2003

I wish I could do 1500 miles. I' ve got 2 911s and have done zero miles in 18 months!

Guest · Apr 8, 2003

Nick,
This story is getting sadder and sadder!!![:' (]
Now we have a total of 3 x 911' s which are doing sweet FA!
I' m sure Ferry P would be rolling in his grave[

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How sad........
Make everyone' s day, and give em a flogging[

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geoff Ives · Apr 9, 2003

[8|] For what it' s worth. I have found problems with modern petrol.I don' t leave my 911 unused but I do some of my motorbikes and I make a point of running low and then putting some ' real 4 star' in them before the lay up.