<VV> Spooky Story

[Bob & Kathy Gilbert]

At this time I think that my best strategy is simply to replace pieces(pump,
points, coil) one at a time (plus check all hose connections and rubber
hoses for air leaks).

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of J R Read_HML
Sent: July 5, 2005 7:55 PM
To: dgrahams at cox.net; virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Spooky Story

Bob,  Bill touches on something that could possibly be your problem.  Got a
known good coil around to try?

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Later, JR

----- Original Message -----
From: "bill graham" <dgrahams at cox.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Spooky Story


>I just went through almost the same thing with my '66 chevy pick-up with
> a carb'd 350 vortec.  Stalled just like a fuel problem about 11 miles
> into my drive home from work (around 12 miles total), started fine after
> I pulled over to the side of the road and made it home fine.  Two days
> and four commutes later stalls about a mile into the trip to work,
> started up, made it another block, stalled, re-started, idled down a
> side street, stalled, wouldn't restart, towed home. Replaced elect fuel
> pump and hei distributor ( shotgun approach to problem solving ), drove
> around the block, stalled, restarted, idled home. Replaced coil,
> wouldn't start, bad coil.  Replaced coil, drove 1/2 mile, stalled,
> restarted, stalled, idled a bit, stalled, towed home. Rebuilt edelbrock
> 600cfm carb, runs great, four 5 mile test drives without a problem so
> far.
>
> Carb problem would have been my last guess but so far it seems to be the
> fix.
>
> Bill Graham
>
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