Smog emissions test fail timing off

Asked by TroubLesomE93 Nov 07, 2022 at 02:40 AM about the 1993 Ford Thunderbird LX RWD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Anyone who has heard
of that problem? What
was done to fix
it.thanx

1 Answer
307,305

Gene answered about a year ago

On my old T Bird I had to replace the timing gear and chain set and then found the distributor was causing the coil to fire erratically, had to replace the distributor pickup coil, after that it started running much better and passed the running tests.

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