A coil runs quite warm, a cool coil indicates it is not carrying any
current. This could just be because the engine stopped with the points
open, or it could be an break elsewhere in the circuit. Have you clipped a
timing light on to each plug lead and checked you are getting a spark while
cranking? The car should start and run for a while with no pump because of
the fuel left in the float chambers - unless your pump stopped a couple of
minutes before you switched off last time. Could be the inertia switch gone
intermittent.
Suppression capacitors don't care whether they are connected to positive or
negative ground, and the only way it would stop the pump working is if had
gone full short, in which case it would have cooked the white wire running
the length of the car.
PaulH.
----- Original Message -----
From: Garner, Joseph P. <JPGarner@UCDavis.Edu>
To: 'Bullwinkle ' <yd3@nvc.net>; <mgs@autox.team.net>; Garner, Joseph P.
<JPGarner@UCDavis.Edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:38 AM
Subject: RE: wierdest starting problem. help!
> I also checked the coil like other people suggested (thanks!), and it was
> cool to the touch. (It was suggested that if there was a short in the coil
> it should get hot to the touch).
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