Re: IML: Ignition failure solved?

[Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>]

On surface, going to the parts place and getting
electrical contact cleaner in a spray can, dousing the
 admittedly corroded contacts on the firewall "seems"
to have solved the symptom.  

No start before, start after with no other changes.
  
My $10,000 thank-you check is in the mail.  Thank you 
very much!!  Let's see if the car makes it to the next
zip code and back....

-Kenyon

--- oneof514@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I have also had a very similar problem - twice. 
> Once it was a bad bulk head connection.  The second
> time it was the coil.  I am now having a similar
> problem - but not as severe.  I am wondering if it
> could be the electronic ignition module.  My 71 was
> converted to the later electronic ignition.
>  
> Wayne 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: IML <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:29:28 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: IML: Ignition failure
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> I was driving the 72 last night and experienced
> something new and before I go hunting wanted to ask
> if
> anyone has a suggestion on this.
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> Symptom:
> Car runs fine for 20 miles.
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> Starts to hiccup suddenly and repeatedly while in
> motion on the freeway as if losing spark, fuel seems
> fine.
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> Hiccup progresses and car dies running horribly
> rough,
> getting little spark intermittently on different
> cylinders.
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> Does not want to start in park, so I go to neutral.
> restarts and seems to catch and die - detonation in
> only a few cylinders.  Backfired up carb two
> seperate
> times out of 20 attempts.
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> Starter solenoid/starter refuses to respond to key -
> no noise but radio and other electrics work, so
> power
> present/battery strong.  
> 
> Wait 2 minutes and it does engage then goes dead on
> retry, with intervals between response/dead
> progressively longer.  Car now won't respond at all.
> 
> This feels an awful lot like a loose connection/heat
> sort of thing.  I did an engine swap very few miles
> ago.  Maybe I left something loose and it's worked
> its
> way off and was arcing or something?  
> 
> I plan to start my tour at the starter
> motor/solenoid
> connections.  Anything else worth looking at?  I do
> not suspect the column switch at this time -
> jiggling
> it made no difference and it feels tight.
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