Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the suggestions. We ended up renting a truck and trailer to
get the car home.
A few more details that I did not include in the first email as I was
using a tablet and it was not working well.
Car has a Pertronix on it (couple of years old). Would it fail this way
or just quit?
Alternator seems to be good. Ammeter is indicating charging when I
would expect it it and a drain basically only when starting.
I am pretty sure the pump we used did not have diesel and I know I
pressed the 91 octane button, so I don't think that is the problem.
The last couple of times it died on a test drive this morning, I pulled
over to the side, and the car started back up immediately and could
drive another mile. So, it was off for less than a minute. My thinking
is that would not be long enough for the coil to cool down. But this
makes it very hard to check spark or gas problems because by the time I
could open the hood, it would be willing to run again. Seems to idle fine.
The car doesn't sputter. It just seems to run out of steam and dies. I
have to keep pressing the pedal more and the car keeps slowing down
until it dies.
I checked the other diaphragm this morning. It was fine.
The car does run rich, but it has for a long time and it does not seem
to richer now than in the past based on fuel consumption.
I guess I am leaning towards the fuel pump, the coil, one of the hoses I
did not replace, or the floats getting stuck.
Thaks everyone.
Roger
On 10/20/2013 12:10 PM, Dave wrote:
> if you have electronic ignition, and the alternator is going bad,
> those are pretty much the symptoms. ask me how I know . . .
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Roger Elliott
> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:38 AM
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: [TR] Car trouble in Hannibal, Mo
>
> Hi,
> We have been driving my wife's TR 250 through Ohio for the last week.
> It has been running great until we stopped for gas.
>
> It started out fine, but as we were pulling on the highway, it didn't
> have any power and then died.
>
>
> I found a vacuum hose that had come out I put it back in and it ran
> fine while we drove a short distance to a restaraunt. But then, we we
> got onto the highway, we drove about 3 miles and it ran out of power
> and dies again.
>
>
> Hoses were still in place. I replaced the fuel filter, checked 1
> diaphragm. It was okay. I thought if only 1 was bad, it probably would
> not die. The fuel filter was full of gas and seemed to let the gas
> through.
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