Allan,
Do you think, maybe, that it is the SU fuel pump causing your symptoms?
If the ignition were cutting out, my father's solution to everything
electrical was "it must be a loose wire"
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Steve Laifman
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Allan Ballard wrote:
> I m sorting my stock MK1a Tiger, trying to get it back on the streets after ~
> 3 decades of storage in a barn.
>
> Current focus is on carburation.
>
> It has a remanufactured Holly to replace a worn-out Motorcraft 2-bbl.
>
> Recently it was running pretty good but after I parked it to eat supper at a
> restaurant recently, upon return to the car it would not start. It
> looked flooded; I looked down the throat and saw aboutS a half inch of bubbly
> gas in the
> bottom of the carb.
>
> Subsequently shop guys replaced the choke spring mechanism, pronounced the
> carb to be cured but 6 miles later in Atlanta traffic it
> died with the same symptoms. It acted as it was out of gas then died and
> would not re-start.
>
> I pushed it to the side of the road, popped the hood and looked down the
> carb--another a pool of bubbly gas down there
> and no way it would start.
>
> About 90 minutes later the tow truck arrived and the Sunbeam ranked so I drove
> it onto the flatbed truck.
>
> Does this make any sense to any one?
>
> Is there any way the coil could overheat and cause this--or do I have a POS
> carb?
>
> Allan
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