[Healeys] update on shutdown issue

[Jim Ryan]

I'm a little confused. The car will start and run an idle seemingly
forever. But if you start it up and drive it, it dies? Or are you just
getting into it and revving the engine a bit and it dies?

Sorry Tom, if I missed something, I think I read the whole thread..

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 11:03 AM Tom Felts via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> Since having the car towed home I have checked all connections in the
> ignition system, pulled the distributor base plate out and cleaned it--the
> the two pieces were very tight.  I have let her run in the garage for long
> periods of time and she has not shut down again so I haven't been able to
> check spark.
>
> When it did shut down, it wouldn't take long before she would start again
> then shut down.  Then start, then shut down.
>
> I know my trial and error method wasn't the best approach, but without
> being able to check spark it seemed appropriate to change out components.
>
> Tell me if my analysis is correct on this.  I thought it might be a fuel
> supply issue.  So---I pulled the float bowl covers and all was ok
> there--also pulled and cleaned the carbs.  If the float bowl jets were
> stuck in a closed position it would get no gas and eventually shut
> down---but---both would have to stick so each carb wouldn't get gas.  this
> seems like an unlikely condition.
>
> If they were stock in the open position it would be dumping gas out of the
> overflow tubes---so, again, unlikely since it would still run.  I have
> already changed fuel filter and blew out the line.  The pump pumps normally
> and each time I pulled the float bowl caps, they have been full of gas.
> So--I have basically ruled out fuel starvation as a cause.
>
> in the garage she sits and purrs forever with no shutdown------so, as I
> mentioned, I can't ch spark
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