Honeymoon on hold?
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Joined: Apr 2014
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From: Southcoast Massachusetts
Honeymoon on hold?
Ok time for some Brain picking, been loving this car for a week or two since I got it, last couple days it's been breaking up on hard accel and steady cruise, kind of hesitating at steady rpms, I just checked around the forum and today replaced the plugs with ac R45 with an .035 gap, after a quick cruise it seems to worse, just put back in the garage. I'll try replacing the cap and wires next ( any recommendations?) it's a MSD blaster coil and elect ignition. Any thoughts?
70 L46 350/350 4 spd , .030 over, cam edelbrock intake and carb.
Pre-thanks
70 L46 350/350 4 spd , .030 over, cam edelbrock intake and carb.
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Le Mans Master
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start it up when its dark outside kill the lights etc and start it up see if any of the wires are arcing . that would be a good sign its wires, it won't always show up but it is a good sign.
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From: Summerville SC
Good idea about looking under the hood in the dark. Sparks do show up. There are probably some more obvious, easy issues that I would look at first, but I had the same thing happen on a C2 that I owned back in the day. The distributor itself was shot, not the Points ( do a search for you young guys) but the shaft or the gear, not sure what it was, but it would break up at the top end. Bought a new dizzy and problem solved. Just a thought.
Drifting
Joined: Sep 2010
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From: Laguna Niguel California
After you've checked the things above, it could be today's crappy gas. I had a similar behavior even with all good components, finally fixed by richening up the jets to compensate for the gas.
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