Pretty much same scenario happened to me. I determined that somehow the
wire running from the coil to the distributor had an internal break. After
replacing that wire the car ran fine. Determined this rather accidentally
but after replacing the wire I checked the old one and it was intermittent
fine or bad depending on "jiggling". I determined this to mean that it was
'broken' inside somehow. Anyway, a real cheap easy fix and it has been fine
since. Good luck.
STever
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Editorgary@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:27 PM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
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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