12a Rough Running, Slight Electrical Burn Smell
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12a Rough Running, Slight Electrical Burn Smell
Digging into my 1985 GS with the 12a and had some issues last weekend. I fired the car up, and started just fine. Took it out for a spin and had a slight hesitation around 4k rpm. This is nothing unusual as the car tends to not get driven a ton, and after it gets things moving, it never happens more than once (about the time the secondaries would kick in). Then I noticed some hesitation around 2k as well. Continued with a short drive and kept having issues at 2k and 4k, like it was bogging down, bucking, but not the signs of true misfiring. Then the car started to idle rough, and low. Took it home immediately, and it was definitely not running right. In addition, when I popped the hood, I had a faint/light smell of electrical burning. Started digging into some of the common things:
- compression good
- plugs normal wear (will replace anyways)
- distributor cap and arm good
- carb clean
- oil good
- coolant good
- fuel filter is new and still clean
- no blown fuses
- no smoke or unusual smells from the exhaust
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