[Healeys] Still Missing under load 64 BJ8

[Dan Stromquist]

Good idea.  That was how I found a cracked coil about 35 years ago.
Dan



-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Spidell [mailto:bspidell at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:21 AM
To: Dan Stromquist; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Still Missing under load 64 BJ8

Dan,


Park the car in a dark garage with good ventilation (a contradiction, I
know--maybe do this at night).  Open the bonnet and observe the engine
closely while revving through the normal RPM range.

My guess is you'll see spark arcing somewhere, most likely on the
distributor cap.  Replace cap, preferably with genuine Lucas cap.


bs

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Bob Spidell         San Jose, CA        bspidell at comcast.net
'67 Austin-Healey 3000             '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Dan Stromquist" <dan at warner-associates.com>
> Listers:
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> My local shop here in Minneapolis cannot seem to figure out why the car
> misses under load.  After a good warm up, it seems to run great for a few
> minutes and it idles like a champ.  As soon as we hit the in town highways
> it starts to miss as soon as I accelerate, especially in the 2200 to 3000
> RMP range when I put it into overdrive and give it some gas.  I know it
> seems like a fuel problem but they have assured me the flow is there and
it
> is electrical after pulling the carbs and cleaning them.   We replaced or
> checked the distributor (rebuilt),  plugs, wires, coil, condenser, points,
> timing, new rotor,  carbs cleaned and rich needles installed (they were
> rebuilt by Jim Taylor).  Shoot me some ideas.  The bill is out of sight.
I
> suppose it is possible that some of the replacement parts are bad to so I
am
> going to make up a new set of high quality plug wires, new Lucas cap,
> another new British Car Specialists rotor, condenser, and plug end caps
> 
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> 
> Dan
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