Re: Car Quitting

Posted by John Dauphiny on September 11, 1998 at 12:17:05

In Reply to: Re: Car Quitting
posted by Glen Weilbaker on September 01, 1998 at 10:48:12

: : I have a 1930 Roadster that has ran perfectly up until last weekend. [...]
: Mark,
[...]
: Last but not least, the armored cable could be giving you your new found joy. The insulation can break down and short to the armor housing and or the conductor could be intermittent. Easy way to check this is to run a jumper from the coil + terminal to the points where the armor goes into the distributor body bypassing the cable altogether.
: GW
I had a very simular experience to Mark.I got no spark in the distributer, but after yanking it out and putting it back, all was fine again.In the end, I discovered that the ignition wire inside the armor housing had disconnected from the spring connector at the distributor.Being inside the armor cable, there was no way to "see" the disconnection.It wasn't until I yanked the cable out of the car and tested it with a voltage meter(even then, sometimes I got a positive reading, sometimes not... wiggling the spring end is what made me suspicious, since occasionally I'd lose the circuit again)
-john