[TR] Car trouble in Hannibal, Mo

[Roger Elliott]

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the suggestions.  We ended up renting a truck and trailer to 
get the car home.

A few more details that I did not include in the first email as I was 
using a tablet and it was not working well.

Car has a Pertronix on it (couple of years old).  Would it fail this way 
or just quit?

Alternator seems to be good.  Ammeter is indicating charging when I 
would expect it it and a drain basically only when starting.

I am pretty sure the pump we used did not have diesel and I know I 
pressed the 91 octane button, so I don't think that is the problem.

The last couple of times it died on a test drive this morning, I pulled 
over to the side, and the car started back up immediately and could 
drive another mile.  So, it was off for less than a minute. My thinking 
is that would not be long enough for the coil to cool down.  But this 
makes it very hard to check spark or gas problems because by the time I 
could open the hood, it would be willing to run again. Seems to idle fine.

The car doesn't sputter.  It just seems to run out of steam and dies.  I 
have to keep pressing the pedal more and the car keeps slowing down 
until it dies.

I checked the other diaphragm this morning.   It was fine.

The car does run rich, but it has for a long time and it does not seem 
to richer now than in the past based on fuel consumption.

I guess I am leaning towards the fuel pump, the coil, one of the hoses I 
did not replace, or the floats getting stuck.

Thaks everyone.
Roger

On 10/20/2013 12:10 PM, Dave wrote:
> if you have electronic ignition, and the alternator is going bad, 
> those are pretty much the symptoms.  ask me how I know . . .
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Roger Elliott
> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:38 AM
> To: triumphs at autox.team.net
> Subject: [TR] Car trouble in Hannibal, Mo
>
> Hi,
> We have been driving my wife's TR 250 through Ohio for the last week.  
> It has been running great until we stopped for gas.
>
> It started out fine, but as we were pulling on the highway, it didn't 
> have any power and then died.
>
>
> I found a vacuum hose that had come out I put it back in and it ran 
> fine while we drove a short distance to a restaraunt.  But then, we we 
> got onto the highway, we drove about 3 miles and it ran out of power 
> and dies again.
>
>
> Hoses were still in place.  I replaced the fuel filter, checked 1 
> diaphragm. It was okay. I thought if only 1 was bad, it probably would 
> not die. The fuel filter was full of gas and seemed to let the gas 
> through.