Its hard to tell from your description but it sounds like the car wash
part is just coincidental. Assuming regular ignition, I'd suspect the
condensor or its connection to the points as one possibility. Maybe bad
spark plug or its connection to the cap but that wouldn't account for
the erratic tach.
Usually in a case like this where I'm not sure the cause, I would
replace points/condensor, probably plugs. Check the cap and replace it
if it looks like it needs it. Just a regular tuneup type of things. And
check connections of course to everything going to the distributer.
David Councill
67 BGT
72 B
dcouncill@msubillings.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of MonteMorris
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:08 AM
To: MG list
Subject: sputtering- dying
After a month of being idle, I drove the 67B eight miles to town a few
days
ago. I took it to the car wash and on the way home it started missing
and
when making a corner and downshifting to second it died. I noticed as it
was
missing (and dying) the tach was jumping all over the place. I started
it up
again and it missed and died. Restarted and drove the 4 miles home
without
incident. I thought something had just gotten wet while washing
(sometimes
the tach and turn signals die for a while after taking it to the car
wash;
I've found that the problem seems to be a wet connection by the
firewall on
the green wires but it usually dries out and then is fine). So the car
sat
for two days and I started it up and was doing the same thing; missing
and
dying.
Any suggestions on where to start looking? I didn't notice the generator
light coming on while the tach was doing it's tricks.
Thanks,
Monte
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