by Toads Patrol » Mon May 21, 2018 8:58 am
Maryland terror drive - rain included
So I picked up the Patrol from the upholstery shop and started home, an hr drive across rural central Maryland. There is not a single straight road in MD, I had Debbie wazing and calling out the turns, beautiful scenery no traffic. What could possibly go wrong?
Well it started to rain, hard. Wipers on. Surprisingly, after the 50yr old grease in the elec motors warmed up they did a fairly credible job. Then it died. Emergency pull over into a yard. In the 38 years I’ve owned the vehicle it’s never ever let me down. So I’m panicking. Fuel in glass filter bowl, pumps working (you can see the bellows in the fuel bowl go up and down when cranking). After 10 min or so it starts, don’t ask why- proceed and we make it a few more miles - repeat. Anyways it’s raining so hard that water is coming in through every crack in the vehicle. After several iterations on this, it dies at every intersection and turn, we make it to the driveway and it quits terminally, halfway in the street halfway up the driveway. It’s dead, Jim. Well it got me home.
I’m pretty sure it’s the coil. The shop, not used to old tech must have left the ignition on and it cooked the old original coil. RP set me up with a pertronix sensor that I installed some time back so I ordered a new pertronix coil. For good measure I got nos plug wires from the forklift outfit. We’ll se if that fixes it.
Moving to Abilene TX this year, goodbye to rain and country roads, pardner.
Mr. Toad: A motorcar! Gad... what have I been missing? (Wind in the Willows)
67 L60 Hardtop (since 1982)
68 SRL311 (2000 Solex, since 1974)
91 Figaro
Sordid past: 69 SRL311, 69 L521 (KIA), 70 B110, 72 240Z, 72 510 Wagon, 80 720 (KIA), 87 Stanza (KIA), 88 D21, 05 350Z, 10 Versa (KIA - totaled)