Re: IML: Ignition failure solved/Spray Cleaners

[RandalPark@xxxxxxx]

That stuff works okay, but you really should take a closer look or the problem may re-occur. I have used electrical contact cleaners before and find that sometimes the results are only temporary.

Paul

In an email dated Wed, 23 3 2005 10:59:29 pm GMT, Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>On surface, going to the parts place and getting
>electrical contact cleaner in a spray can, dousing the
> admittedly corroded contacts on the firewall "seems"
>to have solved the symptom. ?
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>No start before, start after with no other changes.
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>My $10,000 thank-you check is in the mail. ?Thank you 
>very much!! ?Let's see if the car makes it to the next
>zip code and back....
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>> I have also had a very similar problem - twice. 
>> Once it was a bad bulk head connection. ?The second
>> time it was the coil. ?I am now having a similar
>> problem - but not as severe. ?I am wondering if it
>> could be the electronic ignition module. ?My 71 was
>> converted to the later electronic ignition.
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>> Wayne 
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>> From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: IML <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:29:28 -0800 (PST)
>> Subject: IML: Ignition failure
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>> I was driving the 72 last night and experienced
>> something new and before I go hunting wanted to ask
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>> anyone has a suggestion on this.
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>> Symptom:
>> Car runs fine for 20 miles.
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>> Starts to hiccup suddenly and repeatedly while in
>> motion on the freeway as if losing spark, fuel seems
>> fine.
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>> Hiccup progresses and car dies running horribly
>> rough,
>> getting little spark intermittently on different
>> cylinders.
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>> Does not want to start in park, so I go to neutral.
>> restarts and seems to catch and die - detonation in
>> only a few cylinders. ?Backfired up carb two
>> seperate
>> times out of 20 attempts.
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>> Starter solenoid/starter refuses to respond to key -
>> no noise but radio and other electrics work, so
>> power
>> present/battery strong. ?
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>> Wait 2 minutes and it does engage then goes dead on
>> retry, with intervals between response/dead
>> progressively longer. ?Car now won't respond at all.
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>> This feels an awful lot like a loose connection/heat
>> sort of thing. ?I did an engine swap very few miles
>> ago. ?Maybe I left something loose and it's worked
>> its
>> way off and was arcing or something? ?
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>> I plan to start my tour at the starter
>> motor/solenoid
>> connections. ?Anything else worth looking at? ?I do
>> not suspect the column switch at this time -
>> jiggling
>> it made no difference and it feels tight.
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