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Re: dies on a hill!

To: Thorn <tthorn@comp.uark.edu>, KEVIN EDDINS <eddinsk@NRISO.NOLA.NAVY.MIL>
Subject: Re: dies on a hill!
From: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:00:49 -0400
Oooh!  Oooh!   <raises hand, jumps wildly>

Your Electronic Ignition is failing!  It overheats and the spark goes away!
 After it cools down it's OK! 

Better get a new one soon.   <---voice of experience

Excitedly yours,



At 10:33 PM 8/21/98 -0500, Thorn wrote:
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>Okay ... so we're going along quite nicely - just finished a 200mile trip
>- and have been driving around town for about three weeks. and, it stops!
>(79 Spit - stock, no mods)
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>Hummmm  - has gas. 
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>Turns over just fine, but doesn't fire.
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>Okay--- to the shop and let's see....
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>It starts every time!
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>Ideas??
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>harve
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>TThorn@comp.uark.edu
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Atwell Haines
'79 Spitfire  FM96062 UO
(53 HP)

Succasunna, NJ USA

The One Immutable Rule of Automotive Satisfaction:
"It is more fun to drive a slow car fast than to drive a fast car slow"
- Cory Farley in Autoweek, 8/17/98


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