[Healeys] Mystery....part 3

[Skip Saunders]

Yes, indeed.   But on a Healey, the first thing to suspect is spark.
(Since, complete failure is most like a single point cause, and ignition
(spark) issues can usually be pointed to failure of a single component.)..

 

One other item needs to be on that list:   You not only need "air" you also
need "compression" to make that air/fuel mixture appropriate for burning
inside an engine cylinder.    (that is why I checked compression).

 

The item that turned out to be missing was "fuel"..but the reason for the
failure of fuel to get into the cylinders was interesting..

 

Thanks

-skip-

 

 

From: Richard Ewald [mailto:richard.ewald at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:21 AM
To: Alan Seigrist
Cc: Skip Saunders; Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Mystery....part 3

 

The answer lies in:
Fuel
Air
Spark
At the right place
At the right time
in the correct amount.

(And a tip of the hat to Dick O'Kane who wrote that in the book "How to
Repair Your Foreign Car, a Guide for Your Wife, the Beginner, and the
Mechanically Inept.")
Over the years I have fixed many a car by repeating the above to myself, and
asking what is not there.
Rick