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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:27:28 CDT
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To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Cc: acg@hermes.dlogics.com
Subject: Re: Car Randomly Dies
brucec@amex-trs.com (Bruce Carter) writes:
> Last night on my way home from work and dinner the car decides to just
> quit. I mean really quits, everything quit, the lights give out, the
> radio quit, and the engine ceased to fire. Then all of a sudden I got
> this big shotgun sounding backfire with an accompanying BIG, like REALLY
> BIG black puff of smoke from the tail pipe.
Andy asks:>
> Can you clarify a few things please?
Sure :-)
> - Was this at nighttime, with all lights blazing away, etc.?
Yes it was night, but it also happened today at lunch in daylight. :-(
> - Did it abruptly die, like flipping off a big switch, or did it sort
> of fade away over a few seconds or minute or so?
Just like shutting off a big switch.
> - What did you do to get going again? (Assuming you DID get going again...)
Popped the clutch as I was rolling and it sputtered to life, and then
the BIG BANG.
> On the face of it, sounds like you had some sort of massive electrical short,
> a loose positive battery cable flopping around and grounding, for example.
> -- Andy
I'll bite on the a massive short, but not the losse positive battery cable.
But I will check both just in case. Maybe I went over a speed bump to
hard and jarred the battery so that every once in awhile the positive
battery cable grounds out. I sure hope not 'cause that sure would be a
nasty mess if it blows-up.
Thanks,
Bruce...
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