Fuel Pump Relay question

[Kneale Brownson]

I once had a Porsche 911 that would misfire at speed after it had been run
for 15-20 minutes that turned out to be a rotor in which the metal would
displace when heated, causing an intermittent short.  Took the mechanic a
long time to figure that one out.

At 11:20 AM 5/31/2005 -0500, Chris Hall wrote:
>Distributor cap & rotor.  
>
>That's what the problem was...  

>I just never suspected it because the car would usually run perfectly
>fine for 10-15 minutes, then all the sudden start to backfire and
>sputter and eventually stall out and not restart for 10 minutes or so.
> I figured if the cap and rotor were as bad as they turned out to be
>(so much carbon build-up on the contacts in the distributor cap that
>you couldn't even see the metal on the ends...) the car would never
>start and run smoothly in the first place.  It's a physics miracle
>that it did... I should post a pic of how bad the terminals were... 
>lol
>
>
>Thanks again to everyone that offered up advice.  Hopefully all the
>keywords we've created will help the next guy with a stalling problem
>find lots of good advice in the archives  :)
>-- 
>Chris Hall
>badcomrade at gmail.com
>"making girls cry since 1974"
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