Ignition Woes
So driving home Friday evening, the car took about 20-30 seconds to start as I left the bank (ran errands on the way home). Then, it cut out randomly, and took even longer to start once I coasted into a nearby parking lot. After waiting a minute, I got it started again, and it took me the remaining 15 minutes home without incident. Still—not cool.
The fuel pump and filter are brand new, and the injectors have less than 3000 miles on them, so I suspected something ignition-related. The distributor connector was very suspect (NO idea how it ended up in that state):
Swapped over Megumi’s pigtail (lineman’s splices FTW):
I also put a protective sheath on the wires.
Cleaned the distributor up just a bit also. The bottom screw broke b/c of course it did:
Drill & tap, drill & tap… Sigh.
I also swapped over the crank angle sensor, and got the plug wires organized also thanks to swapping over a whole load of clips that were missing:
Getting there…