[Healeys] Fuel Problem Revisited

Tracy Drummond bighealey at charter.net
Mon Mar 26 12:40:50 MDT 2012


Anyone worth their salt fixing these cars deserves a "test out" for a BS in
Advanced Murphyology 

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Tracy Drummond
 
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From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Oudesluys
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 11:12 AM
To: Tom Felts
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fuel Problem Revisited

Replace the cap and rotor. I thought from the beginning it was an ignition
problem.
Kees Oudesluijs


Op 26-3-2012 18:45, Tom Felts schreef:
> In trying to isolate the reason for an occasional sputtering which I
attributed to sticking points in the fuel pump, I have made an observation
that "may" have some effect------I am interested in your thoughts.
>
> I pulled the dist cap and noticed a coating of oil on the rotor contact
point.  Also, the center pin in the dist cap was hung up in the cap.  With
no pressure on the rotor and with the rotor contact having oil residue on
it, could this be a cause for an occasional sputter.
>
> As some of you have pointed out, (thanks Steve and others), if the points
were sticking in one pump, the other pump would have kicked in and there
shouldn't be any sputtering------so---what do you think?  I
>
> I'd take her back out for a good run today, but sadly our summer weather
has slipped back to winter and I'm a top-down person.
>
> tom
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