>
>Ouch! That's a lot of gas money. I had this problem ...
>..told me to check both the distributor
>and the timing chain. He told me that a worn timing chain will cause the
>valve timing to change during idle speeds which could make the car
>misfire and to be retarded at high engine RPM's which will rob you of
>HP. The loose bushings in the distributor cause the timing to fluctuate
>which will also cause the engine to run irractically at all RPM's.
Thanks. This may explain odd difficulties with my Citroen BX. It has run
about 250 Mm (=megametres, 250 000 km) without any attention on its timing
chain.
Once again, you alpinists got me happy!
Larry
with a can of wormgears (do you call those teethings as wormgears??)
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