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RE: Diagnosis Please!

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Subject: RE: Diagnosis Please!
From: Gernot von Hoegen <avac@totalise.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:09:28 +0000
>===== Original Message From "Joe Donovan" <jdonovan@mediaone.net> =====
>OK, one more time.   Got this '73 TR-6.   It starts when cold, but even if
>the choke is out it runs as if at low idle.   After running for a little
>while it quits abruptly.   Will restart, but only for an instant before
>quitting again.
>
>Last diagnosis from the list -- ignition coil.   I replaced the coil, also
>the plugs, which had a black powder on them (suggesting ignition problems),
>plug wires, and low-tension wire between coil and distributor.  Fired her up
>with high expectations and ...... !!!!!! same old story.   Any theories?
>
>Joe Donovan

didn't follow this thread so sorry if mentioned before, when a car quits 
without warning, it always might be the capacitor, did you change that?

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