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Re: Engine cuts out after sharp right turn

To: 007 <jmel@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Engine cuts out after sharp right turn
From: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 22:17:49 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 19 Jul 1995, 007 wrote:

> Hi everyone:
> 
> 
> Here's an interesting problem: '79 MGB - when I take a sharp right turn 
> the engine sometimes cuts out for a second or 2... After that itpicks up 
> & runs great again.  Note: this only occurs on a right turn.  I assume 
> that its due to some carburation problem - fuel starvation.  Anyone have 
> any ideas??
> 

Bit of a long shot, but check the integrity and connections of wires 
running from the chassis to the distributor and the coil high tension 
wires.  An intermittant connection might open during turns.

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910


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