showcrop
Well-known Member
I have been having an intermittent problem or perhaps a string of different problems with my 960 puller for about a year. I had the engine professionally rebuilt about ten years ago, and it has for the most part run very well since. The first time it stumbled and died was about a year ago, it was a series of worse and worse misses until I had to push the clutch in. Cleaning the filter bowl seemed to take care of it, but a few weeks later on Labor day last year it was worse. This time we found a carbon track on the rotor indicating that it was jumping to ground on the shaft. I replaced rotor, cap, wires and autolite plugs. It seemed to be better, then it started missing again. I went into the fuel side again and tested for flow and found it to be very good from the tank into the carb bowl. I opened the carb and found it to be very clean, and found all passages clean, but the float was 1/4 inch low, so I took care of that and tested it on the Dyno. On the Dyno it would make and hold full power for ten minutes. Next time on the track, yesterday, I got half way down the track and it skipped twice and died. It did exactly the same on two hooks. Last night I went at it again, checking everything in the dist. (EI), including advance, wiring, I even dumped the gas from the tank to check for something floating but there was nothing. I checked for an intermittent ignition switch and struck gold here. I ran wires out to twist together to take the place of the switch. I thought for sure that I had it, but today it did exactly the same thing; two misses then dies, but pushing the clutch in catches it. Any ideas?