[Healeys] update on shutdown issue

[Robert Markovich]

Couple more thoughts: 1) There’s a thin black braided ground wire beneath the condenser inside the distributor if that and the points are still in place. If the distributor is the stock Lucas unit, even with Pertronix, that wire may still exist; worth checking for frayed ends. Result: the car runs fine, then stalls as heat and electrical resistance build. Then the car will restart and run fine—for a few minutes—until the same thing happens again. This happened to me until I found the frayed wire. 2) The distributor isn’t advancing properly due to broken advance springs or some other issue. 3) The fuel pump isn’t delivering enough fuel and/or the filter is clogged. All of these are easy to check …


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On Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 3:14 PM, Jim Ryan <ryan at jimryan.com> wrote:

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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