I may be overlooking something here Bill, but have you tried replacing
the coil? My Polara came home on the rollback last year due to a 3-month
old Accel coil failing. Another issue I had was 3 years ago when I
changed a point distributor over to elec. on a 273 in a 65 Dart and
forgot to change the coil, too. It ran great till it warmed up, then it
would die every time I drew any power... turned on the lights, stepped
on the brake, etc. New coil cured it.
Bill M wrote:
I think I've got it. I went back out last night and of course the car
fired right up. I let it idle for a while...wiggling every wire &
connector I could get my hands on, tapping on everything electrical,
slamming doors, bounced the car, etc, etc...nothing...just kept
running. It finally died on it's own after ~15 mins. The only way I
could think of to see if it's the Pertronix was this...I broke out my
air hose popped the dist cap, and sprayed the Pertronix unit
vigorously with compressed air so I could cool it off. As soon as I
got it "cooled" again, it fired right up. I'm pretty confident that's
it now.
Thanks everyone for your help and ideas.
Bill M
>
>
> Subject: Let the fun begin...
>
> So I decided to take a risk and take the Coronet for a ride yesterday
> before the new Pertornix got here, and it bit me in the ass...After
> driving @ 2-3 miles, I came home on e tow truck. We messed around
> under the hood for a while, checking everything and even replacing the
> distributor. Once we put the car's distributor back in (it had cooled
> down but was never "hot") the car fired again. I fired it up this
> morning figuring I would let it run for a while, get hot, shut down on
> it's own, then I would "cool" the Pertronix unit w/ compressed air
> hoping to pinpoint the problem once & for all.
>
> Well, after idling in my garage for all of 5 minutes, my wife opened
> the door to grab something out of the car and when she shut the
> door...it died immediately.That of course brings in a whole other
> realm of possible problems. Coincidence? I don't know but there was
> barely any heat in the engine...let alone the distributor or Pertronix
> unit.
>
> What the &%$@ could be jarred by closing the door that would shut the
> car down? I'm an automotive electrical idiot so I'm completely
> stumped. Ideas? Could it be the voltage regulator in the firewall?
> Anything else?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Bill M
>
>
Jeff Adams
64 Polara
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