Re: 4KCSQ: stalling at cruise speed

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

> Sounds similar to a problem I had with one of my 5K's.    Turned out to
> be a bad bearing in the distributor (sparks).  When I replaced the
> distributor, the dying went away.
> 
> My theory was that the extra play in the bearing caused the hall unit to
> fail every so often...  Not saying that you have a bad dist bearing, but
> you may have a flakey hall sender in your dist.

yeah, I had a similar problem once about 100 years ago... the tach
dropping like a stone to 0 RPM was the best clue I had - the tach is
driven by the ignition so that means no ign is the "cause" or at least a
major "effect".  ie it's not just fuel loss if the tach crashes.  otoh,
if the tach keeps representing the engine speed accurately, it's not the
ign system.

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Huw Powell

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