At 06:01 PM 10/5/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Lost all power, but not suddenly. Pulling plug wires at the
>distributor, either of two will cause the engine to falter. Pulling
>either of the other has no effect, BUT - when the end of that wire is
>held close to its socket in the distributor cap, some rather
>righteous sparks start jumping. What does this mean? Had to go
>somewhere, so did not get any further in my investigations.
>
Sounds like a carb problem to me. My guess is one of your float needles is
stuck and two cylinders are being starved of fuel. Pull a plug wire on one
of them and it makes no difference, pull a wire for one of the two cylinders
being properly fed fuel and it'll die. Been there.......
Ross MacPherson
1947 MG-TC 3528
1966 MGB-GT
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