> For some time, every now
> then, when shifting, it would be kind of hard, not really wanting to go from
> one gear to the other.
> Then today I was driving out to the ranch, going
> around 50 mph the TR just wanted to like jump or lurch forward. Considering
> the ranch, is kind of isolated, I decided just to return home, since I had
> only gone five miles. On the return, the TR died at a stop sign. It
> re-started just fine. Then on the way back it did another lurching/jerking
> thing, and another episode where the engine, just died, as if someone had
> turned the ignition off,
Sounds to me like you have two separate problems going on here. The first one
sounds like a clutch problem, dragging perhaps. The second one sounds more like
electrical, perhaps a broken or shorting wire inside the distributor, or maybe a
break in the wire to the hot terminal of the coil.
Randall
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