[BaadAssGremlins] Re: Problems
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[BaadAssGremlins] Re: Problems



--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, baadass73gremlin@xxxx wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 9/18/05 9:08:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> twa1950@xxxx writes:
> 
> Had Gremmie out tonight and something happen that never  happen before. I had 
> driven about 20 miles made a couple of stops. I was  driving down a four lane 
> about 45 miles an hour and he just quits like you  turn the key off. The 
> lights came on the dash and the radio kept  playing.  It coasted into a stores 
> parking lot. I tried starting him and  it turned over but nothing. I open the 
> hood shook the connectors around the  distributor and the ignition modular and he 
> started right up. I started home  drove him for another 10 miles and he did 
> the same thing. I coasted into  another store parking lot. He started right up 
> this time. I didn't even have  to open the hood. I drove it a couple of more 
> miles stopped and got gas. It  was about 1/2 full. Took the expressway home 
> about 10 miles got him up to 65  ran fine. I brought him home let him set for 
> about an hour he started right up  drove him around the block everything seems 
> great. I am going to change the  fuel filters even though I changed them at the 
> beginning of the summer. I  bought a new ignition box that is the only thing I 
> can think of. You got any  suggestions. Either the beginning of last summer 
> or maybe the summer before  that I changed about every thing under the hood 
> just because it was getting  old. Plugs, wires coil, distributor cap, rotor 
> button, fuel pump. The only  thing I can think of he knows that the big car show in 
> the park is next  weekend. It seems every year something happens to put me 
> ill at ease with him.  Last year it was the gas tank. If anyone knows of 
> anything else I can change  out that would be quick and easy let me know. There is a 
> three or four mile  road leading into the park. The last think I need is for 
> him to die on that  road. I get laugh at enough because I have a Gremlin I 
> don't need him to die  on me and have all the other cars have to go around me. 
> LOL. There have been  more than one car die on that road.
> Thanks
> Terry 
> 
> 
> 
> Your Gremlins a he??mines a she all  my cars are shes.And it sounds  like you 
> may have have a loose wire or wired the ign. box wrong.
> Bart

Change that lousey blue ignition box or do what my friend did to cure the same problem in his Gremlin, put in a new points dist.
"Doc" 













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