Re: '86 XN6 505 lurches and stops
Mitch Barbato (mitchellb@carolina.rr.com)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:12:51 -0800
thaddeus e dabrowski <thaddeu-@art.umass.edu> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/peugeot-l/?start=6330
> Hi
>
> Really could use some dianostic advice.
> My '86 XN6 505 will begin lurching after running smoothly for 20 min.
> Then, in a few more minutes it will stop and refuse to restart.
> Overheating? Siezed? The water temp guage reads safely at half way
to the
> red line. The car will restart after sitting for a few hours.
> The lurching is coincident ( not synchronous ) with the
"click...click" of
> a relay from behind the instrument panel.
Can you hear the fuel pump running? Will it crank, but just not start?
Told to me by a battery manufacturer: Lead-Acid batteries (like car
batteries) get "run-down" from short-term heavy load, like cranking,
but have a lot of charge left in them if they sit for a while, because
the electrolyte gets "re-distributed" while sitting.
Mitch
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