Re: Time for a tune-up?

From: Andrew McHorney (andrewmchorney@home.com)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 00:54:12 EDT


19,000 miles - too soon. My 1st tune up was at 50,000 miles and that was
for a smog check prep. I have 84,000 miles and I am on the 2nd set of
plugs. I am still getting 16 mpg for the 318 engine.

At 12:39 AM 7/4/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm at about 19,000 miles and still on the original distributor cap,
>wires and plugs. I'm running totally stock except for my QuickD and
>have noticed my mileage has been less than expected. I put in a bottle
>of STP Fuel Injector Cleaner about a month ago, got a terrific couple
>tanks of gas, and then watched as my mileage steadily dropped to where
>it was previously (or maybe a little worse).
>
>Anything in particular I should be checking out? I don't know if I want
>it to be time to replace those things or not - on one hand, I'd like to
>get an upgrade here, but on the other hand, I need to buy that offroad
>gear and I got a VERY nasty speeding ticket today that I will likely
>hire a lawyer to help me with, so money's going in another direction at
>the same time.
>
>--
>-andy
>
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