Re: 4KCSQ: stalling at cruise speed

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

> You are correct!!!
> My distirbutor on my 5k used to do this occasionally....
> It caused an intermitent miss at idle....
> The thing that sucked was one of the wires got hung up inside there...
> snapped it and tach dropped to zero.... nothing...
> coasted under a street light and fixed it with some extra wire in the
> glove box....
> I don't know though... When the fuel pump crapped out on my 5k the
> tach dropped to 0 immediately....

actually my logic may have been a little murky here - the dropped tach
doesn't guarantee it's just ignition, the working tach implies that it
*isn't* the ignition.  And as the years go by (my references are pretty
old cars...) you just have to ignore me.  Quite likely a car without
fuel will abandon the ignition.

anyway, we're just hypothesizing at this point, I hope the original
questioner gets to the bottom of his problem!

> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Huw Powell
> >
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> >
> > 82 Audi Coupe; 85 Coupe GT
> > http://www.nh.ultranet.com/~human
> >

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Huw Powell

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82 Audi Coupe; 85 Coupe GT
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