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1. [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: Bob Abbott <thehealeyguy@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:26:04 -0500; I need the group'.s help with a problem that has me stumped. Car is a 100 - completely restored. Not 100 miles on it. Everything new during the restoration. Starts fine, runs smoothly, until it warms; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00292.html (7,936 bytes)
2. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: Michael Oritt <michael.oritt@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:47:41 -0500; You don't say if you have a solid state ignition but assuming you do not and Jeff has okayed the distributor I would be checking the coil as well as the integrity of connections to it. Also carefull; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00293.html (9,186 bytes)
3. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: John Harper <ah@jharper.demon.co.uk>; Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:08:52 +0000; Could be your coil. I had a similar problem when I started up after a rebuild. It was an oil filled Sports coil that had leaked its oil. It failed when it became hot. I also noticed that the case wa; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00294.html (8,549 bytes)
4. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:51:25 +0800; When it is hot and bucking, is the fuel pump clicking erratically? If so you are getting intermittent vapor lock. I solved that on my BN1 by wrapping header tape around the exhaust pipe below the fu; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00295.html (9,150 bytes)
5. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: Bob Abbott <thehealeyguy@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:29:56 -0500; I'll recheck all of the leads tomorrow. Remember that EVERYTHING is new. Do you know of a good way to test a coil? Also, the car started bucking when the engine got warm - the temp here is cool and; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00297.html (9,933 bytes)
6. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: Ulla & Sven Ordell <bispmotala@hotmail.com>; Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:46:18 +0100; I know this is just short of stupid, but --oil in the carburetor dashpots? Wrong type of coil is most likely however. Just a thought... Sven Sweden --Ursprungligt meddelande-- Fren: healeys-bounces@; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00298.html (10,956 bytes)
7. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: dwflagg@juno.com; Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:53:22 -0500; Hey Bob, Actually, not stupid at all and an excellent observation. Had the same problem myself for that very reason. Doug ____________________________________________________________ 53 Year Old Mom; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00299.html (12,515 bytes)
8. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: "Eric (Rick) Wilkins" <e-wilkins@cox.net>; Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:55:16 -0800; That, or an air leak in the manifold. Carbs not tied together? one will open, the other will stay closed. (I don't know the 100's well--I have Sixes--they are linked together by the throttle shafts); /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00300.html (14,694 bytes)
9. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: Robert Blair <rnbmail@yahoo.com>; Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:28:23 -0800 (PST); Bob, Interesting one .... key seems to be cold vs hot issues meaning something is wrong when the material temp rises....probably not wiring, and since you have done fuel pump, timing, floats..... I w; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00301.html (10,321 bytes)
10. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: I Erbs <eyera3000@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:56:50 -0800; missed a cog on the timing gear? do not have dizzy in at TDC when water in gas? loose ground strap, intermittent contact with metal expansion? curse of Joseph Lucas? -- Ira Erbs Portland, OR _______; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00302.html (11,800 bytes)
11. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:05:27 -0800; A temperature-dependent air leak on the intake side of the engine would be my first guess, too, followed by a possible problem in the high voltage circuitry from coil to plugs. It is simple to swap o; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00303.html (9,588 bytes)
12. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: warthodson@aol.com; Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:07:54 -0500 (EST); This discussion is very interesting to me because a friend had almost exactly the same problem on a newly restored, no corners cut, BJ7. The car is stock except that the engine was rebuilt to BJ8 spe; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00308.html (10,357 bytes)
13. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: John Harper <ah@jharper.demon.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:13:33 +0000; A good coil will produce a spark up to 1/2" long. A simple test when it is in the car is to pull out the centre lead from the disturber and either lodge the end so that it is about 3/8" away from th; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00322.html (12,170 bytes)
14. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: Per Schoerner <healeyguy@bredband.net>; Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:02:15 +0100; Now, this happens because the fuel boils in the float bowls and fuel lines closest to the engine. After running for half a mile or so the engine starts to run normally again, doesn't it? This is bec; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00324.html (10,853 bytes)
15. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: warthodson@aol.com; Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:20:54 -0500 (EST); I agree with your analysis & that is what we thought the problem was too. It is true that if he lets the car cool down when sitting or if he can get it up to a decent speed for a long enough time whi; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00329.html (12,320 bytes)
16. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: Oudesluys <coudesluijs@chello.nl>; Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:54:44 +0100; If vapour lock in the fuel line is a constant problem you could try to fit a return fuel line at the end if the existing line. The return line has to go back to the fuel tank at any convenient point,; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00330.html (10,061 bytes)
17. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: "David Porter" <frogeye@porterscustom.com>; Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:02:07 -0700; Did this recently with a Bentley, though an in tank pump was employed and a pressure relief valve at the fuel rail. So far so good. Here in the southwest the road temps can get so hot that the fuel,; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00333.html (12,353 bytes)
18. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: ATIGHTPROD@aol.com; Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:18:28 -0500 (EST); I had the same problem with my BN1. Granted it's not the same, but if I got even close to 190 around town, the car would buck and jerk and backfire and embarrass the hell out of me. Once out on the r; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00334.html (10,762 bytes)
19. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: David Nock <healeydoc@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:14:39 -0800; Check the tops of the float bowls. There are two styles of lids and bolts. The early style did not have the bronze fitting with the overflow pipe. It had a aluminium cap and there were two small cuts; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00336.html (9,987 bytes)
20. Re: [Healeys] Ruff running, bucking car (score: 1): Author: Bob Johnson <bjsbj8@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:07:56 -0500; Don't know about chokes on early cars like this, but I have had a problem with the cam shoe and rod on my BJ8 wherein the rod was all but frozen in place so that when you pushed in the choke knob you; /html/healeys/2011-11/msg00337.html (8,385 bytes)

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