Will:
I will guess it had to do with the engine rocking on its mounts one way
when going forward, and the reverse when backing up. I would inspect the
coil primary wire and the engine ground wire first.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
On Mon, 10 Oct 1994, Will Zehring wrote:
> One time a fellow with an XJ6 came into the shop with the following problem.
> The car ran fine at idle, but would misfire badly under hard acceleration.
> Interestingly, it would run fine under hard acceleration, BUT ONLY IF IT WAS
> IN REVERSE, moving backwards.
>
> What is the explanation?
>
> Will "Watch this space" Zehring
>
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