> His car cuts out and I can't tell him what it can cause it. > He says, the tachometer drops, the engine cuts out, than back again. So, he > can't drive it and it drives him nuts.
Zoltan: Sorry to be late on this, but I was hiding over in western Colorado: http://jones.colorado.edu/jones/MouseCliffCamp.jpg Anyway, this sounds to me like the classic Hall sender failure.... When mine was going, it would drop out like this up to ~2000 rpm, then be fine above, but when the tach drops dead and the motor cuts out, look carefully at the Hall sender. Don't let them tell you to buy a new distributor. You can get the Hall sender. The Bus Depot, for example, now lists them: http://busdepot.com/details.jsp?partnumber=052998065
Richard A Jones Boulder, Colorado |
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