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Young Ed

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Everyone remember the story of the guy who thinks his wife is cheating and at the end he notices a scratch on his car and asks how to go about fixing it and completely ignores the cheating part? Well I have my own version for you.

Thursday night Carmon and I loaded Spot(the 48) with all our gear and a bunch of food and headed 120miles to the cabin. Lots of extra food was hauled with as our region of the POC was traveling to the cabin for a BBQ sunday. Friday I took Carmon down to the lake and as we walked into the water I took her hand and put a ring on it. She said yes :) Saturday morning we drove quite a ways to meet up with the POC guys. Drove all over WI had lunch in a casino and dinner in Hayward at the first ever Famous Daves. Sat night on the way back to the cabin we got poored on! I had the highbeams on and could only go about 40 because I couldn't see. Sunday about 1 the POC guys came after staying over in Hayward and we had a great BBQ. Afterwards we packed the coupe up and headed out with a few poc guys following us back to the highway. Well almost immediately on hitting the highway my car was acting up. At first it was just an occasional chug. As we went it got more and more and more. The one poc guy stayed with us in case we had trouble. Eventually it got to where we couldn't go more then 40. Ended up leaving the car at another guys house and getting a ride home :( So what do you think is wrong with my car?

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Water and moisture=bad ignition,the rubber fuel hose to fuel pump, could it be sucking air, also Congrats on your engagement, all the best to you and your Lady.....Fred

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Fuel pump is one of the guesses. Odd thing we had another one go out on the trip too. His car wouldn't restart when turned off though. Mine still started instantly everytime.

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Sounds like fuel problem..any rubber hoses that may collapse when hot? I had that to happen to me. Couldn't go faster than 40.. it also messed my fuel pump up. Check that too..

Murphys Law on one hand, But Marshal :eek:I mean Martial Law on the other.. Congratulations and Good Luck..When's the BIG Day :D....

God Bless US All... John

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Congrats to You and Carmon Ed !

The car problem will be an easy fix. Learning to compromise with a life partner from a different planet will be a little more difficult but I know you can do it.

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The car problem will be an easy fix. Learning to compromise with a life partner from a different planet will be a little more difficult but I know you can do it.

I believe they've already been cohabitating. I guess he figured it was a pretty good arrangement to make it permanent.

Atta Boy Ed.

If it would restart but couldn't run down the road, I'd have to agree with the fuel pump theory. I may be pumping enough for minimal RPM and load, so that would allow it to refire. But add a load and it may not be able to keep up.

Merle

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Yes Merle is right we've already been living together. Been about a year of that although it wasn't official until thanksgiving. My first step is going to be to check out the fuel filter. Will probably move to the pump after that. Possibly check the ignition stuff. Car was also backfiring and seemed to be using up a lot of gas. 1/4 tank in about 50 miles.

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Congratulations and best wishes Ed. I have been married for 46 years and would not have wanted it any other way. On your Plymouth, also check the little pig-tail wire in the distributor. Sometimes that can make contact with the side of the distributor and wear through the insulation. It will then ground out when the breaker plate moves when it is advanced causing simptoms that you discribe here. My '48 that I had did that and drove me nuts until an oldtime Mopar mechanic wised me up. Good luck to oyu.

John R

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Disy was inspected and reset couple days before we left. There is a rebuilt one in the garage that will be coming with. It was perfectly dry and nice out on the way home so I don't think its related to the rain we had the night before. Anything due to rain should have happened in the rain or right away the next morning. I did pull the top of the carb also and the fuel bowl was properly full and not full of gunk. Float still floated fine also.

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I thought of that too and about 1/2 way through the distance home we put 10 gallons in the tank. My parents and most of the guys in the club all filled up at the same station and I don't think anyone else had issues.

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41 years ago the person officiating at our wedding chastised us because we had a case of giggles at the alter, He said " I remind you this is serious occasion." My reply "OH Sorry, I thought as far as serious occasions went, funerals were ahead of weddings." Whereupon my not yet wife let out a guffaw, which brought a big frown on the guys face. We got through that inasupicious start and have been happily married for 39 years. I think that pretty good out of 41.

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Thanks all. I must say a couple of you came close but no one had it 100%. The adjusting cam for the points apparently got stripped out soomehow when I inspected and reset them last week. Dumped in a new distrib and away I went.

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