[DeTomaso] Dead In The Water

[Art Stephens]

Hello Jim,
      My car is a very stock survivor.  It has the original distributor with the dual points.  

Thanks,
Art



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Gray 
  To: Art Stephens 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 11:04 AM
  Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Dead In The Water


        Dear Art,

        This sounds so lmuch like my experience several years ago when I had a Mallory Unilite module gradually go bad.  By any chance are you running a Mallory distributor?

        Jim "dead in the water at 80 mph on I-40" Gray


        --- On Tue, 5/12/09, Art Stephens <artstephens at verizon.net> wrote:

          From: Art Stephens <artstephens at verizon.net>
          Subject: [DeTomaso] Dead In The Water
          To: detomaso at realbig.com
          Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 12:34 PM


     I fired up the car this morning and everything was normal with the engine
idling until it just quit running.  I thought that was odd so I fired it up
again and a few seconds later it quit again.  I fired it up again and it was ran
normally. I then took it for a drive and I didn't get a block away before it
quit while I was driving along in first or second gear.  I left it in gear as I
rolled along and it re-lit for a few seconds only to quit again.  I fired it up
and drove back home with no more trouble.  The way it died,  I'm sure it is
electrical.  There was no coughing or sputtering,  it would just stop deader
than a beaver hat and then re-light.  I wiggled the wires I could reach with the
engine running and could not make it die.  I'm headed out to pull the engine
cover in the cab so that I can access the front of the distributor and try to
figure out what is wrong. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Art

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