1989 740 B200E - UK

Discussion in 'Volvo 740' started by Virgin News, Feb 8, 2005.

  1. Virgin News

    Virgin News Guest

    Hi Everybody

    Have a niggling issue with our UK 1989 740 2.0ltr Auto(B200E engine). Need
    some help please.

    For years now the car had a slight tendancy to fire up on 3 cylinders
    (sometimes 4 with a bit of a missfire on the 4th pot) which cleared ok by
    blipping the throttle. A few months ago this got heaps worse and would not
    just dissappear by blipping the throttle.

    Car has been religiously serviced and maintained to a high standard from
    new. Replaced plugs - genuine Volvo/Bosche, nope. Replaced king and HT
    leads - one HT lead connection to the plug looked yucky - but nope.
    Replaced the Distributor cap and Rotor arm (halfords own) and bingo all
    seemed nuch better (actually this was hardly surprising as the car was then
    still on its origonal Dist cap and rotor arm !)

    That was 4 months ago in Oct 04. 2 weeks ago the firing on 3 started
    again - Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Now we have been having some pretty damp weather
    so will spray leads, king lead, coil, distributor cap etc with copious
    volumes of WD40 and see what happens Wed morning - might drop lucky. Bye
    the way all leads are sitting well on plugs, in dist cap etc.

    Has anyone else experienced this. Please share experiences and what U did
    to resolve.

    Many thanks.

    Andy
     
    Virgin News, Feb 8, 2005
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