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Re: [Shotimes] Diagnosis of 92 SHO

To: Maury Alston <freeze_0387@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Diagnosis of 92 SHO
From: James White <greensho@crown.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:00:08 -0500
If your crank sensor was bad your would have gotten to the Stealer 
at the back end of a tow truck.

Likely you have bad plug wires, likely caused by oil in the spark 
plug wells.

If you can't do it yourself (it isn't all that hard) get an independant 
repair shop that will replace the plug wires, clean out the plug 
wells out of the oil that is likely there to cause problems, and 
maybe replace the spark plugs with DOUBLE platium plugs.

The intake manifold must be removed inorder to get the plug wires 
installed correctly.  The first time is a challenge to get every 
thing reconnected, but after the third or fourth time it is only 
10 minutes.

If the oil leak into the spark plug wells is really bad, once the 
intake is off, the valve covers are easly removed and the valve clearences 
are easly checked and maybe adjusted, which should be done every 
60,000 mi.  If necessary, new plug well seals with new valve cover 
seals are available from AutoZone for only $70+/-

regards, Jim White


At Tuesday, 11 July 2006, Maury Alston <freeze_0387@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I have just come from a dealer having my SHO checked out.  I have only 
>had this car a couple of weeks and it has not been the romance I 
had hoped.
>Once the car gets warm, it starts to cut out, more specifically the 
>car will not accelerate in 1, 2, or 3rd gear.  Once I get it to 
4th, it 
>starts to pick up speed.  I have put the petal all the way to the 
floor 
>and the engine doesn't rev.  I take it to the dealer and after about 3 
>hours, they tell me they "think" it is the crank sensor and it will be 
>about $920 to fix.  Has anyone else experienced this??
>
>Maury
>
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