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Re: Car dies - help

To: british-cars@hoosier, totty@flute.cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Car dies - help
From: Geronimo x54903 page 951-3432 <GENDIMEN@T12SYS.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 12:48:13 PDT
>       I have a 1980 Spitfire with the amplifier mounted by the clutch
>       and brake hydraulics, and a magnetic distributor.  I had my car
>       die on a hot day in a similar manner.  It would lose power, and
>       then quickly die, unable to restart.  I never found the problem,
>       since it would go away on cooling, and I didn't have tools to test
>       it when I was stranded.

If you guys suspect that the amplifier is crapping out when hot, carry a can of
freeze spray and spray the unit when your car dies if it starts immediatley
then it's probably the amplifier.

Mike G.

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