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RE: dies on a hill!

To: Thorn <tthorn@comp.uark.edu>
Subject: RE: dies on a hill!
From: Andrew Miller <amiller@JetForm.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:28:48 -0400
Ditto.  I had this same problem in June. (78 Spitfire)  Although it was
judged unlikely, my 'Lumenition' control module was the culprit.  Everything
fine when cool but would fail when warm/hot intermittently.

Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Atwell Haines [SMTP:carbuff@nac.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 1998 11:01 AM
> To:   Thorn; KEVIN EDDINS
> Cc:   spitfires@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject:      Re: dies on a hill!
> 
> 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:
> >
> >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)
> >
> >Hummmm  - has gas. 
> >
> >Turns over just fine, but doesn't fire.
> >
> >Okay--- to the shop and let's see....
> >
> >It starts every time!
> >
> >Ideas??
> >
> >
> >harve
> >
> >
> >TThorn@comp.uark.edu
> >
> >
> >
> 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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