[berettafan]

Long weekend in the car and on the ride home while cruising at about 3100 rpm the tach suddenly 'shut off' (along with the motor!) and almost as suddenly everything was back to normal. Wife was behind me and didn't even notice it but it had me paranoid the rest of the trip home (was 2 1/2 hrs from home at the time).

I feel like it must be electrical based on the tach needle dropping like it did (rev's certainly didn't drop that much in the brief moment that it happened) but i really don't know my way around the ignition system beyond points gap and timing. condensors and the like are foreign to me.

The car has had a slight stumble when cruising around 3k rpm (very slight) which i assumed to be a carb cleaning coming up....but now i'm not so sure. When checking the plug wires i was able to push one of them slightly better onto the cap (had recently reset gap and timing so maybe i knocked it loose) and driving after tells me i MIGHT have resolved the stumble....

but maybe the stumble isn't related to the sudden loss of power?

thoughts?

motor is a 2.4 with webers...no gimicky modern stuff currently attached to it.

this has not happened before although another time i was coming home from ax'ing the car had a bad stumble the entire way home between 2500 and 3500 which somehow resolved itself and may very well have been due to plug wires being loose where they attach to the plug boots.

odd.