Originally Posted By: Trav
Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
It acted up again tonight why entering the freeway onramp. At about mid throttle while accelerating to 65 mph, the car started bucking violently for a second or two and then smoothed out like nothing happened. I couldn't get it to replicate the issue for rest of the night. I drove up and down the freeway trying to get it to act up again but it never happened. In the meantime, the transmission is shifting fine and it even down shifted while slowing down on the offramp. Weird.
Its not uncommon for the ignition module to fail on these causing those sorts of symptoms. The heat sink compound deteriorates over time on the iron bracket and it overheats causing intermittent problems.
Its just one of many possibilities but its often overlooked.
You mean like this? (Safe for work)
http://imgur.com/a/GzluC
Dunno if Merk has the same thing in his 2000 as that 1991.
Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
It acted up again tonight why entering the freeway onramp. At about mid throttle while accelerating to 65 mph, the car started bucking violently for a second or two and then smoothed out like nothing happened. I couldn't get it to replicate the issue for rest of the night. I drove up and down the freeway trying to get it to act up again but it never happened. In the meantime, the transmission is shifting fine and it even down shifted while slowing down on the offramp. Weird.
Its not uncommon for the ignition module to fail on these causing those sorts of symptoms. The heat sink compound deteriorates over time on the iron bracket and it overheats causing intermittent problems.
Its just one of many possibilities but its often overlooked.
You mean like this? (Safe for work)
http://imgur.com/a/GzluC
Dunno if Merk has the same thing in his 2000 as that 1991.