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<DIV>Hi Ira – fun, isn’t it!</DIV>
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<DIV>Under the circumstances, check everything in the distributor – carbon
centre button, make sure that the spring is allowing the button to ride firmly
on the rotor. Make sure that the rotor is not too close to the centre post
on the cap – ie; riding too high and lightly riding on the bakelite. Try
another rotor – a known good one. Check that there is no momentary
grounding situation in the wiring both inside and outside of the cap. A
couple of remote possibilities – an intermittently faulty condenser or coil (or
coil connections). Could even be the ignition switch, or the battery shut
off switch.</DIV>
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<DIV>You may still have a fuel problem, but you’ve got to fix the ignition
problem in order to get there.</DIV>
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<DIV>It is somewhat normal for these cars to lose idle quality in hot
weather. You could have fuel percolating in a carb, float levels slightly
off, a slightly leaking float needle as Mr. Salter says, air leaks – any number
of things. With HD8’s, the idle is set on the idle mixture bypass screw –
the throttle discs have to be fully closed at idle – too fast an idle setting
can mess things up. Lots of little things can be not quite right, and the
engine will run just fine. By the time you get it all perfect, it will be
time for another restoration!</DIV>
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<DIV>Like I said – always fun getting it all good after a full resto.</DIV>
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Kagna<BR>Victoria, B.C.<BR>BJ8, BT7 tri-carb</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=eyera3000@gmail.com
href="mailto:eyera3000@gmail.com">i erbs</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 08, 2016 7:14 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=healey.nut@gmail.com
href="mailto:healey.nut@gmail.com">Alan Seigrist</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=healeys@autox.team.net
href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">Ahealey help</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Healeys] Idle dies</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>car looses all power, bucks, backfires, catches and drive ok for a bit,
then big backfires and bucking, then it dies. almost like a loss of power. it
could be an intermittent power loss. Distributor cap looks like . explosions.
NOS cap, rotor, points and condenser . Distributor was removed cleaned and re
greased.<BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Ira Erbs
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Alan Seigrist <SPAN
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- with HD8s you can get leaking at the slow idle screw, which will cause you
to lose idle when the car gets hot. Try putting a couple drops of oil
around the threads of the slow idle screw and see if that stops the
problem. If so, you have to take the slow idle screw out and replace and
oil the O ring.
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<DIV>Also, the Teflon bushes can come out a bit if installed incorrectly,
something else to check.</DIV><SPAN class=HOEnZb><FONT color=#888888>
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<DIV><BR>On Wednesday, 8 June 2016, i erbs <<A
href="mailto:eyera3000@gmail.com" target=_blank>eyera3000@gmail.com</A>>
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<P dir=ltr>Good point, I have HD8s, but the concept should be the same </P>
<P dir=ltr>Mr. Ira Erbs<BR>Portland,OR<BR>1959 Austin Healey 100-6<BR>please
forgive odd words and auto corrects as my phone cannot
understand my misspellings </P>
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