[Healeys] Ignition Problem BJ8

[John Rowe]

Jonas

What happened before the last 2 weeks?

Has anything been worked on or changed just before then?

cheers
John Rowe
Perth

On 15/05/2012 4:06 AM, Jonas Payne wrote:
> For the past 2 weeks, my car has been starting just fine, and can run at idle
> indefinitely, but within minutes of taking off for a drive, conks out and will
> not restart - no spark.  Initially, after a few minutes, the car would restart
> and run for about 30 to 40 seconds before conking out again.
>
> Finally it would not start at all.  At that point, I swapped out the coil and
> condenser with one from an operating car and it still wouldn't start.
>
> Over the weekend, I disconnected the "security circuit" at both ends, and also
> discovered that the nylon washer /capacitor/ground/ points post in the dist.
> Were assembled in the wrong order.  Upon fixing this, the car fired right up.
>
> Today, it fired right up, warmed up  to operating temp, and within 1 minute of
> running, conked out and will not restart.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Jonas Payne
> PBR
> Cell:   (702) 358-5084
> _______________________________________________
> Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html
> Suggested annual donation  $12.75
> Archive: http://www.team.net/archive
> Forums: http://www.team.net/forums
>
> Healeys at autox.team.net
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys
>
> Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/jarowe@westnet.com.au