| On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Ken.Strauss wrote:
>      Help, does anybody out there have any ideas on what is causing these 
>      symptoms.
>      
>      Tooling down the highway just fine, all of a sudden the engine acts 
>      like I turned off the ignition. It slows down and has no response to 
>      the gas pedal.  However, the lights, gauges, radio, etc all stay on. 
>      If I turn off the iginition then back on it comes back to life.  
>      Haven't yet seen any common events in these episodes.
>      
>      All ideas will be considered and greatly appreciated.
>      
>      Ken Strauss
>      1980 MGB
> 
Since doing something to the ignition switch gets it going again, I would 
suspect the switch itself.
   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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