I am so looking forward to the national in SB, but I am about ready to push my Lark off a cliff.
Drove it seven miles yesterday to a friend's house. He wasn't there. Drove about a quarter mile, stopped at an intersection, and when I took off, it would barely accelerate and was chugging like an old four-cylinder. Stopped running on an overpass. Might I add I am not a mechanic??!! All spark plug wires were attached tight, as were distributor connections. My friend came by, he wiggled the battery connections (both were loose), we got it started up again and made it back to his house. There, he tightened the battery connections and it seemed fine. We drove it about twenty miles on the nearby interstate (wanted to see if I still had the nagging vibration it had when I drove it on the interstate in Jan.--no, it didn't, luckily), but then once we got off onto the ramp, it started chugging again, then died, as we coasted into my friend's driveway.
Ran fine on the interstate, except that for while accelerating up the ramps, it would bog a few times, then ran fine at 50-60 mph.
The fuel pump is not quite two years old, and I had put it away for the winter with a full tank of premium fuel, bottle of Heet, plus my usual lead substitute.
After this last "crap out" only, it would not start again...like vapor lock. The couple times before this, it WOULD start again, but would not stay running.
Any ideas? I'm starting to hate this car. BTW, it has an MSD ignition system.
Bill Pressler
Kent, OH
'63 Daytona Skytop R1
Drove it seven miles yesterday to a friend's house. He wasn't there. Drove about a quarter mile, stopped at an intersection, and when I took off, it would barely accelerate and was chugging like an old four-cylinder. Stopped running on an overpass. Might I add I am not a mechanic??!! All spark plug wires were attached tight, as were distributor connections. My friend came by, he wiggled the battery connections (both were loose), we got it started up again and made it back to his house. There, he tightened the battery connections and it seemed fine. We drove it about twenty miles on the nearby interstate (wanted to see if I still had the nagging vibration it had when I drove it on the interstate in Jan.--no, it didn't, luckily), but then once we got off onto the ramp, it started chugging again, then died, as we coasted into my friend's driveway.
Ran fine on the interstate, except that for while accelerating up the ramps, it would bog a few times, then ran fine at 50-60 mph.
The fuel pump is not quite two years old, and I had put it away for the winter with a full tank of premium fuel, bottle of Heet, plus my usual lead substitute.
After this last "crap out" only, it would not start again...like vapor lock. The couple times before this, it WOULD start again, but would not stay running.
Any ideas? I'm starting to hate this car. BTW, it has an MSD ignition system.
Bill Pressler
Kent, OH
'63 Daytona Skytop R1
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