Fuel Pump Relay question

[Chris Hall]

Good to hear.  I don't feel -so- stupid now   :)

I read some article online once where a guy said that he installed a
new timing chain, etc on a Chevy 350 only to realize afterwards that
it was the cap & rotor... and he was a mechnic for 25 years.



On 5/31/05, Kneale Brownson <kneale at coslink.net> wrote:
> 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
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Chris Hall
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"making girls cry since 1974"