[Healeys] Am I on track, or crazy:)

[Michael Salter]

Yes Tom, I  had a similar experience with a BJ8 on a delivery journey to
its new owner.
We had stuffed the boot full of my tool kit, our bags and all the spares
and paraphernalia that came with the car.
On the second day of the the journey the car died after going over a small
bump on the highway.
After extracting my tool kit from the boot, in order to diagnose the
problem, the car immediately restarted.
We repeated this exercise a couple of times over many miles before I
figured out the process of taking the tool kit out of where it was stored
in the right side of the boot was preventing the small white with black
wire, that had become disconnected from the master switch, from grounding
out on the inside of  rear shroud.
A real head scratcher for a while!!

M

On Thu., Aug. 31, 2023, 9:52 a.m. Tom Felts via Healeys, <
healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

> OK---2 months ago, my BJ8 decided to shut off while I was
> driving----couldn't figure out why while sitting beside the road so had her
> towed home.  Long story short--in the process of troubleshooting I have
> replaced may things--the coil, VR, fuel pump, ignition switch. cleaned the
> carbs--blew out the fuel lines, changed fuel filter (i have removed the
> internal filter and added an external one) .  I THOUGHT that after the
> ignition switch was changed that I had found the problem--she ran
> beautifully for over a month.
>
> BUT----------2 days ago while driving------she shut down----sputtered for
> a short time them off----wouldn't start.  AAA Tow home again.
>
> So I had another thought-------and this focuses on the theory that it is
> electrical.  My thought was that maybe the cut-off switch had an internal
> problem such that it would open the wire leading from it to the coil.  If
> it did, it would shut it down.  The system would still be grounded through
> the many cut off switch.  So, I disconnected the wire leading to the coil (
> it doesn't need that anyway)-----and   she has been purring ever since.
> Am I dreaming---or is this a possible cause?  Is my thinking correct?  I'm
> running low on AAA towing passes so don't want to go out on the road to
> test it yet.
>
>
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