More advice for you....
If you are still running a points/condenser setup, check the condition
and gap of the points. Burnt, dirty or improperly gapped points or a
failing condenser will cause the problem you describe. The fact that
the AC seems to exasperate the problem is just a decoy. Most likely the
electric clutch in the AC condenser is pulling the voltage down just
enough to piss off the already marginal points and condenser.
Stephen I. Early
Card Services Technology
Bank of America Corporation
800.441.7048 x74788
stephen.early@fiacardservices.com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-bricklin@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-bricklin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of isensee@aol.com
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 10:47 PM
To: bricklin@autox.team.net
Subject: An intermittent problem
I drove my Bricklin quite a bit today because my daily driver had a
problem. It ran fine most of the time, but I had an infrequent
intermittent problem. I was driving at highway speed and the engine
started bucking for several seconds as if it was missing badly then it
smoothed back out. Later, when I started the car it died immediately
several times even when I gave it quite a bit of gas. Then I turned off
the AC and it started fine and ran fine the rest of the day. Since the
problem is so intermittent, I can't be certain it is the AC, but it
seems like it may be. Does it sound like the problem could be the
compressor locking up? If so, would that be caused by a low freon level
or by a problem with the compressor itself? The AC is cooling as well as
it ever has. Any ideas what the problem is likely to be and how to
troubleshoot it?
Scott
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