Missing & Stalling

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d_harris
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Missing & Stalling

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This first manifested itself the last time I drove the car (last Thursday night) and reared its head when I tried to take the car to town today.

When the car is going, it goes well, but occaisionally misses - i.e a brief "jerk" sometimes its really noticable and almost as if the brakes have gone on, sometimes it just a brief lack of power.

When the car is stationary it starts, runs and keeps missing and stuttering and eventually stalls itself. I'm pretty certain that its not a fuelling issue (I've taken the top of the float chamber off, and there's plenty of fuel in there when its happening.

I would suggest that because it started happening at night that its not a vapourisation issue...

Any thoughts?

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Re: Missing & Stalling

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flooding? leads, plugs, coil? play in the distributor housing?
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Re: Missing & Stalling

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All checked and all correct.

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Re: Missing & Stalling

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dodgy condenser,timing sliped lose plug lead or lead on coil ,rotor arm arcing could be 101 things,its so hard to define .
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Re: Missing & Stalling

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Fixed with new condenser and points re-gap :roll:

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Re: Missing & Stalling

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That didn't last very long :-?
Didn't you put a new one in last month
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