My 57 Fury has only let me down, stranded, twice in 14 years, so I have two
possible solutions...
Once the distributor cap had a hair line crack, the length of the cap. Now this
was a brand new cap from Atlas, and had not been dropped. The car would go like
a
dream, for months, and then just stop during a long journey. All attempts to
restart proved fruitless, until the crack was discovered and the cap replaced.
The other time, was also on a long journey to a swap meet down the line, where
the Fury would be running once again like a dream. All of a sudden it would
start
to miss and cough, and run on 6 cylinders and then 8, and then come right for
the
next 50 miles. Eventually when it did die, it would not restart, and it took a
long time to discover that the problem was a little braided wire (high
tension?),
inside the distributor, that delivered the current from one set of points to the
next, had lost it's insulation in a tiny area and was arcing (grounding) against
the steel base plate of the distributor. Replaced it and it hasn't done it
since.
Just my two theories worth.
Glenn.
Jim Stodolka wrote:
> i haven't been on here for a while but i like all the info
> that everyone gives, so heres a problem i've been having for the last three
> months. i've been driving my 56 imperial a lot lately but every few weeks it
> just cuts out. last month i put over 500 miles on with no problems. thursday
> night i headed for my club meeting and it cut out about 10 miles from home so
> i turned around and had a heck iof a time with it it finally died a block
> from home. i waited about 15 minutes and it started right up . but would only
> run for a short distance. i replaced the coil and the ballast resistor,
> theres gas to the carb. it has done this three times in three months and acts
> up about the same distance. there is no missing till it cuts out. it happened
> one night in town about 30miles away and i had to leave it till morning, in
> the morning i drove it home untill a block from home and it stopped. i sure
> could use some help on this, i'm afraid to go anywhere with it. i can't
> figure it out. on an up note i just bought a 60 dodge polara 4dr thats been
> siting in a shed since 1973. has a 383 4bbl. stokie
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