Robin Giesbrecht 72 Imperial
From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: IML <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: IML: Ignition failure Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:29:28 -0800 (PST)
I was driving the 72 last night and experienced something new and before I go hunting wanted to ask if anyone has a suggestion on this.
Symptom: Car runs fine for 20 miles.
Starts to hiccup suddenly and repeatedly while in motion on the freeway as if losing spark, fuel seems fine.
Hiccup progresses and car dies running horribly rough, getting little spark intermittently on different cylinders.
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.
Starter solenoid/starter refuses to respond to key - no noise but radio and other electrics work, so power present/battery strong.
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.
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?
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.
Kenyon Wills
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