magvan
Well-Known Member
my 67 R/T has a engine dying problem and it seems to be temperature related.
background, it had a points distributor with a pertronix when i bought it. my experience with pertronix is its gonna take a crap at some point. So it did super bowl sunday 2015 pulling into a show, right in front of everyone.
i installed stock mopar electronic ignition. a NOS orange box (when they were still made in the USA) a rebuilt distributor, crane coil, and a NOS tan mopar cap and rotor while i was at it. within a month the ballast resistor went out (it was still the old one, ok)
so over the last year or so ive had a couple ballast resistors go out, ok whatever
recently i came out from lunch and crank but no start, changed teh resistor and it started, went back to work, shut off and restarted it. came out to go home, started, drove 2 miles home, shut it off and no start.
so a couple of days goes by mess with it fires up, drive it all day no problems.
then its back same old motor shuts off like i turned off the key problem and wont restart. of course in the middle of an intersection or traffic everytime.
change ballast fires up and go back to work. test the old ballast with a meter and its good.hmmm
basically the same thing has happened a few times now. until today. same old dies and no start, push my beast out of traffic and sit there. i figured ill just have it towed home but after about 15 min i tried the key and it fires right up and i take it home.
so, what would be temp sensitive that driving 2 miles would get heated up enough to not work? distributor pickup? ignition box? coil? all this stuff has about 2500 miles on it. i run the same crane ps50 (USA made) coil on my 2 other 440 mopars with electronic ignition (checked with crane for compatibility before i bought them)and they will start in about 1/2 of a second, i mean you touch the key and they are running.
any experience in the same problem?
background, it had a points distributor with a pertronix when i bought it. my experience with pertronix is its gonna take a crap at some point. So it did super bowl sunday 2015 pulling into a show, right in front of everyone.
i installed stock mopar electronic ignition. a NOS orange box (when they were still made in the USA) a rebuilt distributor, crane coil, and a NOS tan mopar cap and rotor while i was at it. within a month the ballast resistor went out (it was still the old one, ok)
so over the last year or so ive had a couple ballast resistors go out, ok whatever
recently i came out from lunch and crank but no start, changed teh resistor and it started, went back to work, shut off and restarted it. came out to go home, started, drove 2 miles home, shut it off and no start.
so a couple of days goes by mess with it fires up, drive it all day no problems.
then its back same old motor shuts off like i turned off the key problem and wont restart. of course in the middle of an intersection or traffic everytime.
change ballast fires up and go back to work. test the old ballast with a meter and its good.hmmm
basically the same thing has happened a few times now. until today. same old dies and no start, push my beast out of traffic and sit there. i figured ill just have it towed home but after about 15 min i tried the key and it fires right up and i take it home.
so, what would be temp sensitive that driving 2 miles would get heated up enough to not work? distributor pickup? ignition box? coil? all this stuff has about 2500 miles on it. i run the same crane ps50 (USA made) coil on my 2 other 440 mopars with electronic ignition (checked with crane for compatibility before i bought them)and they will start in about 1/2 of a second, i mean you touch the key and they are running.
any experience in the same problem?