I would suspect the pick-up coil in the distributer. When it heats up it goes "open". Next time it gets hot and cuts out check the resistance on it. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, "argent486" <argentum@xxxx> wrote: > Thanks for the replies so far... > ... > > It was running great for half an hour or so and while cruising my car > died suddenly. Just like something electric went out instantly. > Parked on a side street and turned the key, fuel pump works this > time. No fuses blown, all the gauges looked good at the time. It just > won't fire. I had my multimeter in the back so I did a resistance > check on the pulse coil - 715 ohms. Thought this was a bit high. Over > the next couple minutes it lost an ohm a minute. I suspect it is > getting heated up and flaking out on me. Came back two hours later, > read 650 ohms and dropping. Is this normal or should it read 600+/- > all the time???