[Roadsters] Roadster Diagnosis

[Tom Lorick]

Larry:

Just an odd thought, but if this is an original distributor, you could have
broken springs or spring mounting point on the weights in the distributor,
spinning "uncontrolled" and changing your advance at speed, and settling
down at idle - it's a longshot but might be worth checking out.  Also the
little wire that is in the distributor that goes to the points plate often
fails, perhaps this is frayed and causing problems as the plate moves?  I
have parts for all of this I can pop in the mail to you if that's the case -
only issue will be if the spring anchors on the shaft are broken - I can't
fix those, only recourse is to replace the shaft, or distributor.

Tom


I finally got my 66 roadster on the road after quite a bit of work.

I'm having a problem I haven't been able to figure out.

It runs fine at idle and driving around at low rpms, but when I drive at
high rpms, it quickly starts to sputter, and then immediately afterwards
sputters at the low rpms. It recovers after about 30 seconds and then runs
fine again at low rpms.

I thought it was a fuel problem at 1st. I checked fuel pump, floats and carb
adjustment with no change. Then thinking electrical. Changed spark plug
wires, double checked points and timing and no change. I don't know of any
elect.
issue that would cause it to sputter at high rpms and then still run bad at
low rpms and then recover after 30 seconds, but I don't know everything.

I did just think that there could be some fuel blockage between one of the
float bowls and the carb.--I'm going to check that now.

Larry


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