One other possibility is that your dizzy bearings are shot and the gap
closes. Happened to me on an old Honda Civic I owned. Drove me crazy.
And yes, the bearings in Roadster dizzies do go bad.
First I'd check the ballast resistor however.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Levine" <nalevine@dcn.davis.ca.us>
To: "dana nojima" <noji-1@pacbell.net>; <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 12:36 AM
Subject: Re: poor running
> Dana,
>
> Check the point gap. This sounds like what my car did when the point gap
> slowly closed because the points weren't tightened down enough. Good Luck.
>
> Neil Levine
> '66 SPL311 06576
>
>
> At 02:13 PM 9/24/02 -0700, dana nojima wrote:
> >List,
> >
> >My car has been running pretty well recently. After not driving for
> >about a month the car has been running poorly. The last time it was
> >running like this I had chased potential fuel problems. Filters, carbs,
> >gas, gas tank . . . . In the end the problem was bad points. So the
> >car has been running poorly. It seems to cut out at 3000 rpm. I
> >changed the points and the car ran great for about 10 miles, then it
> >started running poorly again.
> >
> >Any thoughts?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Dana
> >
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