My experience was also similar... I felt so defeated... because I just
couldn't figure this problem out... All the grounds/cables APPEARED to be in
great shape... and all the connections were tight... Finally... one day...
when it died somewhere in Hollywood... I hopened the bonnet and gave all the
connections a good wiggle... not expecting to find anything new... but just to
do it... well... the ground was, indeed, tight around the battery and secure
to the firewall... BUT.. when I wiggled the cable... it just fell out of the
large battery connector... It was a poorly made connector... and it had simply
worked itself loose... but not loose enough to be obvious to a visual
inspection! UGHH!
(So now, if you look under my bonnet... and you see that I spent $$$$ on gold
plated, fancy over-the-top, over-kill, battery cables... you'll know the story
behind it.)
--Justin
Jack Wheeler wrote:
> Kas's suggestion reminds me of a similar experience I had at the Runoffs in
> 1980. We had taken the battery out of the car to take it back to the motel
> room to charge it up the night before the race. We brought it out to the
> track and installed it prior to our warm up session the morning of the
> race. During the warm up I noticed an engine miss. After the warmup, I
> checked everything I could think of and replaced any potential culprits if
> I had spares. During the race I still had the problem, and it got worse as
> the race continued. I finished the race, but was very disappointed with my
> performance.
>
> After I got home and sometime that fall while working on the car I found
> that the ground strap from the battery was loose where it attached to the
> body of the car. The battery was located in the trunk and it was easier to
> remove the battery with the ground cable in place. When I reinstalled the
> battery (in the early AM darkness) I had tightened the ground cable finger
> tight, but forgot to go back and tighten it with a wrench. After that
> experience, every time I had an engine miss, the first thing I checked was
> the ground cable on the battery. A lesson learned the hard way!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. John Lye [SMTP:rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 11:16 AM
> To: greenery@gte.net; fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Spitfire with Weber Problem-Round 2
>
> Hi,
> Another thought related to this:
>
> At 08:40 AM 4/25/00 -0700, R. Kastner wrote:
> >2. The ground strap between the engine and the chassis being loose and
> >making a disconnect whena torques over on a long left hander.
>
> Could the fuel line be getting crimped when the engine torques over?
> If your pressure gauge was before the crimp, you'd still see good
> pressure but get no actual fuel flow to the carb.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Lye
>
> '59 TR-3A, '62 TR-4, '70 GT-6+
> email: rjl6n@virginia.edu
> homepage: http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm
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