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Today I cleaned out my spark plugs, just to be sure it wasn't something simple, and reset my ecu. As I was letting the car run as it reset, I come back out and there is this nasty rattle/scraping noise. It doesn't affect the performance of the car, cause I drove it down to the mechanics and it ran fine. no backfiring either.
I let him drive it, and of course no backfiring, but it made the scraping noise and he didnt know exactly what it was. He told me to bring it in sometime this week and they'll redo the timing to make sure. After I drove back home and parked it for a good 45 minutes it wouldn't run. it would start then die. After 4 tries it ran. what the hell?
And I learned another interesting tidbit of info. The little screw that worked its way out of the ignition rotor thingy inside the distrib cap? THEY NEVER FOUND IT. So it could be runnin around in there causin all sorts of havoc.
So tomorrow I'm gonna try to bring it in to em, and once they fix that problem, I'm gonna have em fix my tie rods and ball joints. they're all messed up too.
Man, I was hoping to save money for performance parts over winter, not paying for repairs! This sucks!
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