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>Dear All,
>
>I was hoping that my introduction to this list wouldn't involve such a
>serious problem but...
>
>I have owned a '77 spit for about 6 months. PO rebuilt engine (which is a
>'78 according to the numbers). PO left car in garage for a couple of years
>without driving it before selling to me. I've done quite a bit on it, none
>of which, I think, is related to new problem. There's 5-600 miles on the
>engine.
>
>Engine has always seemed to run strong; carburator runs too rich but "ok" (I
>have a manual choke ordered, which I hope will help). There is a water leak
>from around water pump; thermostat works and guage seems to work logically.
>Oil pressure light seems to work logically. Monday after driving about 10
>miles fine and while going up a hill (it's been up longer and steeper), the
>car began to shake. Over the next 1/4 mile, shake rapidly deteriorated (on
>level ground). I was quite busy trying to find a place to ditch the car,
>etc; but there seemed to be no smoke, temp was fine, no oil light until it
>died. Clutch had no effect on engine shaking (which didn't stop until
>engine died). Sorry, I'm not good an "characterizing" the problem but it was
>like the engine was "out of balance"; it was shaking the whole car, like a
>wobble.
>
>A friend towed me home (towed great :) ). Car won't start; it turns over
>with a "womp womp", no water in oil, no oil in water, water was down by a
>couple of cups, engine and transmission mounts are fine, when the car went
>bad - it rapidly deteriorated but there was no sharp breaking sound,
>metal-on-metal, or anything that I heard; just seemed to start shaking and
>sounding bad.
>
>What should I do to try and figure out what's wrong?
>
>Thanks, brent
>b_martin@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu
>
>
Brent,
Sounds electrical (as in ignition) to me. I'd say the distributor and
timing deserves a serious look see.
Tony R.
69GT6
68GT6
64TR4
TTFN
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