Once in a while, if you pull out the spark plug wires, you will separate the
contact from the wire with no visible sign that this has happened. Worth
checking on. Pull the plugs and crank the motor, looking for spark on each.
Mike Perry
72 Spit, with the bloody knuckles to prove it!
-----Original Message-----
From: Spitfire 1500 <s1500@uswest.net>
To: Spitfires <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, July 15, 2000 7:51 PM
Subject: put-put put
>
>Well, I almost thought I got it running.
>
>I charged the battery up, and while it was charging, I checked/cleaned out
>every possible connection I could find.
>
>I fire up the engine, and now it sounds like it's running off of three
>cylinders! As a test, I, one by one take out each spark plug wire and then
>it feels(and rumbles) like its running off of 2 cylinders.
>
>It runs horribly(idles really rough), for about a minute, and then it dies.
>If I slam on the accelerator, it barely revs up. Everything electrical wise
>SEEMS to be ok. NO loose wires or anything. Fuel is being delivered.
>
>I'm out of ideas for this one. Is it that I didn't charge up the battery
>enough?
>
>
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>http://british.nerp.net
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>
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