Coming home from school tonight the car started to miss on the freeway, was every 10 seconds or so, gradually started to pick up until it was constant under any kind of load in any gear, managed to coast it off the freeway and towards a side street. Car died while coasting, tried to turn it back on and give it gas to get it moving but under almost full throttle in first it just died again. Pushed it out of the street and let it cool for a bit before trying to turn it on again. Go to start it, and it's got a bouncy idle going from 500 rpm to 100 and back up again, all while the car starts to smell like raw fuel.
Process of deduction has left me at the distributor being the issue, my question is if this is an issue with the distributor itself being broken, or maybe just the rotor and cap? I took the cap off and it seemed where the rotor has been touching the points the plastic looked burnt, not sure if that's normal. This is on a 94 5.0 with a T5.
Process of deduction has left me at the distributor being the issue, my question is if this is an issue with the distributor itself being broken, or maybe just the rotor and cap? I took the cap off and it seemed where the rotor has been touching the points the plastic looked burnt, not sure if that's normal. This is on a 94 5.0 with a T5.