At 10:59 AM 12/18/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Here's a problem to get your collective minds around. One that's been baffling
>me for a long time and I'm desperate to solve it!
>The only drawback (forgive me!) is that it relates to a non-Triumph car but as
>it's a 4-cyl, single carb car with points it's essentially very similar to our
>Triumphs and some of you may have experienced the same problem. (OK. I'll admit
>it's a MK1 Ford Fiesta..)
>
>The problem:
>When driving on the motorway at a sensible speed, after a little while the
>engine loses power dramatically and appears to misfire. The speed drops to a
>crawl and I have to pull over onto the hard shoulder. The engine invariably
>dies and when I pull the bonnet and check plug leads are pushed on tight etc,
>jump back in and start up everything is fine again for about another 10
>minutes. Then the same thing happens. Recently as the weather has got colder
>this happens first thing in the morning when the car is first started from
>cold.
>
>I've tried everything (well, almost!). Thinking it must be a dodgy lead I've
>replaced many parts bit by bit and it's still the same. It's got new condenser,
>points, distributor cap, spark plugs, ignition leads. I'm beginning to think it
>can't be an electrical problem and yet it still sounds like it's misfiring.
>
>I would be most grateful if anyone could throw some light on this please.
>
>Thanks for keeping the list going. It's a great source of help and information
>especially to novices like me!
>
>Andy Linkens
>'69 Vitesse
>'76 2500S Estate
>'85 Fiesta (shame)
>
>Andy, had a similar problem once on my TR3 and it was a bad coil. When you
open the hood and fart around it gives it a chance to cool off.
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