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RKS
05-31-1999 14:47:14
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Re: ford 3000 quits running after short time in reply to web browning, 05-31-1999 13:47:34
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good idea to always look at the points for wear and pitting, but sounds like a coil or condenser. The condenser is cheaper, so try it first. Then, next time it gets hot and quits, immediately see if you can "manually breaker the points, with a jumper, and see if the coil fires when you do." If, not - it's probably the coil. If it does fire, and won't crank normally, it may be a break somewhere in the dist cap, or coil to dist high voltage wire. You can also develop a short in the distributor low voltage lead in from the coil. So, open the points to widest, and look for voltage on the dist-coil low voltage line. If there is voltage, ok, if not - you have a break in the primary winding of the coil, or a grounded distributor, and look for the ground where the wires lead into the dist. Good luck. RKS
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