[tcb] I'm stumped - '59 won't start, stay running...

  • From: James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:38:37 -0700 (PDT)

I have had an intermittent starting issue since I can remember (1 year at 
least?) so anyway, after waiting 10 seconds after the 1st attempt it would 
start up.
Saturday I picked him up from the body shop and it took 5 hours to get it 10 
miles into my garage.

The engine died 5 miles from my house and I pushed it into a parking lot where 
Robb noticed the center post on the dizzy cap was broken, walked to FLAPS, 
replaced drove to the gas staion 1 mile from my house and left it idling as I 
was pumping gas into the gas can it died, i spent the next hour tring to get it 
started, replaced the points, condenser and it took 10 tries after that (with 
jumper cables) to get it started. I got all the way to the driveway and while 
the door was opening it died again. 2 hours later it barely started and I got 
it into the garage 5 hours before the hail storm : 0

I never replaced the rotor so I did that last night, started up and idled for 5 
minutes then died. I started it back up and it idled for 25 minutes and I 
thought it was fixed.This morning I realized it is not fixed. 

I have spark, I checked the battery and it was charging (2 weeks ago) it has an 
8 v battery but the regulator has been adjusted for that and it  is a brand new 
wiring harness and I have cleaned the grounds for the battery and tranny ground 
and I am stumped. 

the November show is a week and a half away and this is the only thing left to 
do on him. This weekend, I finally got the  @#*% fixed that was done in Ennis 
and received the last door panel from Lenny 11 months after requesting a 
replacement...

James

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