Brandon Scarbrough

My trusty car (210,000) miles, and has never been in the shop, died
while I was driving on the freeway the other day. I had it towed, I
told the mechanic I thought it was the distbutor. It turns out it was.


He turned out to be a real crappy mechanic. He left one bolt off of my
distrbutor, and the other 2 were so loose I could giggle the distrbutor
in my hand. I fixed this by tightining the bolts, and adding one that
was missing.

Ever since this awefule mechanic did this my car has lost tons of
power!! It used to be a zippy fun to drive car, now it just sucks, I
press the gas and literaly nothing happens for a second or two. If I
have the air conditioner on, the symptoms are even worse.

my questions are

1) What are some possiable normal causes of such a drastic loss of
power?
2) Could this be realted to the crappy mechanic's install of my
distrbutor?
3) any ideas on fixes?

I thought it might be a clogged fuel filter, I am in the process of
changing that out now, as soon as I figure out how to get the bolt
holding the filter to the firewall off without loosing my knuckles.
Any ideas would be great, I love this little car, I would hate to get
rid of it. I have had it since it was new, even through several new
cars I always hung on to this car.