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Old 02-24-2007, 10:14 AM
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(1987 260E) serious problem starting the car again

It was cold here last night in Toronto. But I went out for drinks with my friends, came back to the car and it just crank and crank and crank. After a few minutes I gave up and my friends were there hovering over the car to see how they can help. So we pop the hood, pull out the jumper cable etc. before hooking it up, i decided to crank teh car once more. And miraculously it started up. Wow!! I didn't dare shut it off. Looks like the battery is ok. I recently replaced the ignition coil and the fuel pump relay with brand new ones as well as brand new spark plugs and spark wires. What could be the problem? Could it be a bad distributor/rotor?
Is it easy to replace them on this car? I know u can take it out easily as it is at the top and visible. But do you have to make sure the timing and rotor position is correct etc?

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Old 02-24-2007, 10:40 AM
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It was cold here last night in Toronto. But I went out for drinks with my friends, came back to the car and it just crank and crank and crank. After a few minutes I gave up and my friends were there hovering over the car to see how they can help. So we pop the hood, pull out the jumper cable etc. before hooking it up, i decided to crank teh car once more. And miraculously it started up. Wow!! I didn't dare shut it off. Looks like the battery is ok. I recently replaced the ignition coil and the fuel pump relay with brand new ones as well as brand new spark plugs and spark wires. What could be the problem? Could it be a bad distributor/rotor?
Is it easy to replace them on this car? I know u can take it out easily as it is at the top and visible. But do you have to make sure the timing and rotor position is correct etc?

I am thinking could it be that the brand new ignition coil has become shot again? How robust are these coil? I guess all they do is generate the 2000Volts or whatever that gets sent to the correct spark plug right? Anyone know the failure mechanism for this? Is there a way to check without going out and buy another one to swap out/in?

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