On Wed, 15 May 1996 Ragthyme@aol.com wrote:
> > attempted to start the car it would run on cylinder #4 only.It ran fine
> > till this i did not change the timeing I changed the plugs and wires the
> > distributer cap looks fine.The fireing order is correct also.The only
> > thing thas seems wrong is that when it is running on one cylinder the
> > ignition light remains "on" the car is a 1979
> >
> > allan eldridge eldridge@nbnet.nb.ca
> > 70,72,79 mgb's
>
> Allan:
>
> Have you called Guinness yet? If not, do so immediately. This is the only
> instance of a 4-cyl car running on one cyl I have *ever* heard of. You
> should by all means take full-colour video and get a corroborating witness
> there and, if possible, a notary public to take down your statements. MIT or
> Cal-Tech might wish to purchase this machine for research purposes, as well
> ... you may want to keep that in mind before you tinker with it any further.
>
> ::cough::
>
> On a more serious note, this is just mechanically not possible. It's very
Um.... I've deleted Allan's original post, but I believe he said pulling
3 spark plug wires one at a time made no difference. The test of whether
it is running on 1 cylinder would properly be to pull 3 spark plug wires
all at once, and show it makes no difference.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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