andrea69au wrote:
> a friends husband grrr, said he would change the points in my mazda 626
> 84 model 4cindinder (which should have a electric ignition) he said
> that the timing was way out ( mind u a new timing belt put in by my
> mechcanic 5 months ago u would think would be right) and the car
> carried on when he put the new points in.
> the mechcanic had said when i had the money to put in a electric
> ignition cause the cars points were getting so dirty so quickly that it
> was making my car drive really noisy and vibrating when they got dirty.
> so long story short went to wreakers got a electric ignition and friend
> put it in, and thats the start of my problems.
> when i drive the car it drives while moving pretty good, until a car in
> front or god forbid a light turns red and i have to stop lol, the rpm
> needle gos crazy moving from 1 to 0 and the car starts choking and then
> stalls is a nightmare thats now never ending, the guy is my best
> friends husband and he has stuffed my car, took it to my mechcanic and
> he sprays some stuff around and tightened this and that and fiddled
> around and said he thinks he fixed it (he was really busy at the time)
> and i put her in reverse and the problem was still there. he said that
> he thought it mite be the distribder cap (forgive my spelling please)
> that i needed to go buy one cause it wasnt the right one as it was for
> points so i went and got that and a new rotar button and now the car is
> worse,
> the friend set the timing to 2 decrese and thinks thats right as we
> could after alot of looking on the net and trying the library to find a
> mazda 626 book to check the timing which we came up with nothing. he
> used the gun and really still thinks that its right and has to be
> something else. i on the other hand think if it was set so far out
> before when i had the belt replaced in august last year that surelly
> the mechcanic set all that right at the time.
> so my question is does any one out in the wide world of the internet
> have a mazda 626 84 model or the mazda 626 book that could please tell
> me the correct timing for this model.
> i feel real **** cause this idoit is trying to tell me that something
> else is causing it and that the car was runing **** before bla bla and
> i no he is wrong, i am only a female and i only got my driving licences
> 12 months ago which i learned in this car, i no the car well and when i
> brought it u could barely hear the motor now it sounds like a v8 not a
> 4. anyway this post has made me feel so much better and i hope someone
> reads this and feels sorry for me and can offer some advice and maybe
> think of something we havent tried i am a single mother on very little
> income which is why i let him touch the car, he does no what he is
> doing and has fixed many cars but never a mazda
>

so your only problem is stall and rough idle, both at low RPM?

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Thank you,


CL Gilbert
"Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor
man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard." Ecclesiastes 9:16