Re: car mysteriously died

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxx>]

Two common causes, if electical, are the connections on the white
ballast resistor and the pick-up coil in the distributer. The pick-up
coil goes bad when the engine warms up, as it cools down it works
again. Clean the connectors to the ballast resistor and if the car
dies again immediatly check for spark at a spark plug. If you don't
have any replace the pick-up coil. It is a ROYAL pain to do as you
have to get the mixture unit out of the way. If you think it is fuel
related then try to restart with JUST A LITTLE starting fluid. If it
is a fuel problem it will start right up and die.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757 


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, dherv10@xxxx wrote:
> Andy, 
> 
> The relay on the fire wall is explained under general reference on
my web 
> site. It will effect the starting but not the running. You can
actually do 
> without it if you move the wire from the solenoid wire over to the
right side 
> of the resister. It's the blue/yellow wire. 
> 
> The pulse coil will do what your talking about as well as the
ignition coil, 
> but when these cut the car off they have to cool down for about 30
min to 1 
> hour before the car will start back up. And if it was running OK
before then 
> it would continue to do so.
>