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Re: Car stopped puzzle

To: <Editorgary@aol.com>, <healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Car stopped puzzle
From: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@pacbell.net>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 18:40:19 -0700
Had the same problem at Mesa Verde, CO a few years ago (little
farther from home ;) ... 

Bad rotor.


What do I win????



bs
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Bob Spidell         San Jose, CA        bspidell@pacbell.net
'67 Austin-Healey 3000             '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Editorgary@aol.com>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 5:26 PM
Subject: Car stopped puzzle


> Okay, here's a puzzle for Gus at the Good-Time Garage, or the Tappet Twins at 
> NPR.
> I'm going to try debugging this, but toss in your suggestions as to what you 
> think might be wrong and what to check, and when I get to the bottom of the 
> problem, I'll tell you.
> After three  outings with my Healey-- the first 250 miles, the second 75 
> miles, and the third that ended abruptly half a mile from home today after a 
>60 
> mile drive -- my car is sitting in the garage, insisting that it be fixed 
>before 
> I take it out again.
> Hasn't been tuned up in quite awhile, but started up on first turn and idled 
> smoothly. I'm running standard points ignition.
> After all those miles of totally uneventful motoring, as I turned off the 
> highway on to the main street very close to home, the car just stopped.
> After I cruised to a stop and pushed it into a convenient parking lot, i 
> determined the following --- It has charge; turns over like a champ, but just 
> won't catch. It has gas; both float bowls full. All wires between the coil 
>and 
> distributor are securely hooked up. It may not be making a spark; the 
>screwdriver 
> in the lead, and holding the lead near the sparkplug tip produce nothing. 
> Disconnecting the black/white ground wire at the terminal near the fuse block 
> didn't help (so it isn't a cut-off switch/wire problem). That's as far as I 
>got 
> before I decided that working in my garage at my leisure was preferable to 
> working in a parking lot with only emergency tools.
> Question one: what would you check and in what order?
> Question two: As a W.A.G., what do you think is going to turn out to be wrong?
> Cheers
> Gary





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