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Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr
Do it Tim, do it!
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Tim who?
My little story concerns a Jaguar Mk II 3.6 (not sure of the year...trauma affects memory), our family car in the 1960's...which, even in California at the time, was a parts snipe hunt.
My Mother had finally had enough and we bought a 1969 Ford Country Squire station wagon: Baby Poo yellow with black seats. It was a real head turner
So, MK II: Intermittent stalling. Car would run great for 20 minutes and then cut out. Wait 20 minutes, drive ten minutes, stall, lather, rinse...
My Dad and I started all the Lucas wiring continuity checks but not before we hired a English Jaguar Shaman, a Lucas Smoke Whisperer and the Prince of Darkness.
We began the process of elimination.
Zippy...same failure mode.
A friend of my Dad's, another "British Car Aficionado" (on the CDC list of contagious diseases) comes over and says, there is a break in the ignition wiring system somewhere you can't see...you need to pull all ignition wiring (don't hold me to this fellas, I was 10) from both ends to see if it pulls apart.
His rationale was that cold, there was an electrical bridge in the wiring; with heat, the expansion would cause a gap in the wiring and the car would stall.
He was right...I spent yet another the day with my Dad we found it, exactly as his friend described.
I learned two things in the week chasing the Lucas Dragon: I liked working on cars and I learned how to cuss.