Re: RPM dive

[Brad Sheridan <brads@mindspring.com>]

At 11:40 AM 1/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>what happened was the tach took a dive as well as the engine, as 
>if someone cut the sparks, then turned it on again, allowing the car to 
>catch.  has this happened to anyone?  eric mentioned the coil...i assume this
>means the ignition coil.  i thought this was only pertinent to starting the 
>car... am i wrong?  could it be a distributor and/or wire problem?  thanks 
>for any thoughts you may have on this issue.

I had a problem where the ignition would occasionally cut out(tach drop to
zero, complete power loss), and to get it to restart, I would have to
quickly turn the key off then on. It was a sporadic problem. I tried
several different things, but the distributor fixed it. I'm pretty
confident it was the Hall sender. I plan on rebuilding my old distributor
with a new Hall sender, I'm just waiting on the part. Then I can hopefully
verify whether or not this was the problem.

Brad


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