Sometimes It's the Simplest Thing...

[RonMele]

So today I'm driving my 66 back from the first car show it's been in (and the first show I've had a vehicle in.) Longest distance I've driven it, actually, about 15 miles from the garage to the show. Ran pretty good going over there though seemed under powered...but on the way back it stalled out at stops. Since it seemed underpowered and with the temp gauge is inop I worried that it was overheating or something.

Not so.

Taking a peak under the hood my brother and I immediately noticed that the nuts holding the carb were loose. OOPS. Tightened them back up...idled nicely after a spark plug wire that was loose. Lesson I learned? Rather than jump to conclusions about why it suddenly quits..look for the simple stuff.

Tomorrow night is a local "cruise night" car show...gonna bring the truck to that also. In between time I'll change out the spark plugs (thought I'd done that but...NOPE!) and check the dwell. The plugs are clean (um, minus the one that was NOT firing...boot had gotten a little mal-adjusted and there was no contact between the plug and the wire.) Also need to wipe off a @#$% load of fingerprints.

Bottom line? I had a blast at my first show...ran into a bunch of family, saw some cool airplanes (and one bad landing minor accident thing) and got a lot of comments on the truck. Did I mention I had a blast?

Thanks for letting me share...

Ron

[bobenhotep]

Good deal, troubleshooting is often looking for the obvious, working toward the less obvious, less probable, and most dreaded.

I have been on Facebook too much, I was looking for where to click to "like" your post.

[RonMele]

LoL...thanks for the feedback!