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Re: Charging Problems - '74 Midget

To: "Philip Hubbard" <phubbard@carroll.com>, "MG List" <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Charging Problems - '74 Midget
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 07:23:55 -0400
Cc: "Spridgets" <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Reply-to: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
On 7/25/98 5:16 PM so and so (Philip Hubbard) said. (And I quote:)

>Last night was a fun one.
>
>Got my suspension done and took the car for a test spin around 9:45pm.
>Never test drive at night, though at least walking home is cooler.  :)
>
>Remember I was having difficult starting problems?  I think I know why
>now...weaker and weaker battery.  Could just start it while engine cool,
>but not hot and eventually gave out alltogether.  Here comes the fun.
>Driving about a mile from my home and the car suddenly loses power and
>within 15 yards, dies.   Was able to get into a parking lot, pop the clutch
>and get it running (badly) again - the mad dash for home begins.  I got
>about 1/2 way home and it died again.  Could not get it restarted.
>
>Went home and waited for reinforcements.  Wife comes and we get it started
>)about 2 hours later so the pop the clutch system worked once.  She follows
>me home and I die in about 100 yards.  I work on a sticking carb piston,
>jump the car and charge it up a bit and I limp home - almost.  Dies about
>100 yards from the homestead.  Jump and charge once more and I'm in the
>garage.
>
>Put the battery charger on it and go to bed.  
Sounds like a bad Alternater
See Nory's Sig line!!

Larry Macy
78 Midget
>
>Philip
>1974 Midget (Arioch, Lord of Chaos)


Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Manager/Administrator
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
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