[Healeys] Help!

Robert Blair rnbmail at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 9 13:10:11 MDT 2009


Richard, 'Rough' and 'No power' sounds like electrical - not carb needles or
tuning.  I will assume that your points are now ok......

I am sure you will gets lots of help here, but I would look at:

1.  Batt terms/switch [as said by Alan]
2.  Fuel pump - intermitent could provide both rough [lack of fuel] and dead -
no fuel.  A new punp would answer that in 30 mins.  How old is your punp??
3.  Coil could be bad/intermitant - same on/rough/off results.  A new coil
would answer that in 30 mins.  How old is your coil??
4.  Sort to ground somewhere that is the result of a frayed live wire.  Some
avo meter work would be required.
5.  Bad battery - one deal cell that drops the voltage and screws up the
system.  Have a battery full load test done at the local shop.
6.  AND FOR RELIABILITY ON A LONG RUN, replace the disti rotor for sure - I
had intermitant/dead engine problems a few months ago after a fresh resto with
two differnt rotor designs - both were dogs.  A third design/souce has been
fine.  See the artcle on rotors in the recent Healey Mag July/August 2009 - it
shows 6 different rotor designs.  $10 and 10 mins.

There are others of course - interested to see what the die hards recommend.


Robert N. Blair  Yellow 65BJ8  rnbmail at yahoo.com
   



--- On Sun, 8/9/09, Richard Kahn <tahoehealey at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Richard Kahn <tahoehealey at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Healeys] Help!
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 6:59 AM
> I've been having some "hesitation" or
> faltering so I replaced points,
> condenser, and the little wires inside the dizzy. The
> points had been
> slipping closed. Got everything tight. Still got the
> faltering on an 8
> mile drive today. As I pulled back into the garage (half in
> the door as
> luck would have it) every thing died. No lights, no pump,
> no second
> hand on the clock, no power at all. Pushed it in to the
> garage and
> tried to start again but nothing. A few minutes later
> everything worked
> but ran rough. I checked the points and they were properly
> open. Coil
> (3 years old)wasn't particularly hot. I had been thinking
> fuel line
> (needles) before I got total loss of power. We are due to
> take a few
> hundred mile run in a couple of weeks and now I don't trust
> her.
> Any help for the challenged?
>
> Rich Kahn
>
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