Electronic advance problems...

Don.F.Broadus at ucm.com Don.F.Broadus at ucm.com
Thu Mar 4 14:40:23 GMT 1999


Sounds to me like the HEI module is over heating. See if it has heat sink
grease on it, that would explain the 43 min time out.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	andy quaas [SMTP:realsquash at yahoo.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 03, 1999 3:19 PM
> To:	diy efi
> Subject:	Electronic advance problems...
> 
> this is long....
> 
> Someone contacted me with a problem that they are having with their
> projection 4Di.  They have it tuned up on a 454 with a 1988
> remote-coil HEI distributor.  It will run for 43 minutes (every time),
> no matter if its idling or driving down the road.  They are also using
> the ESC module and knock sensor.  They tried a 1980's big-cap
> electronic advance HEI and it did the exact same thing.  They were
> running with a vacuum-advance HEI and it ran just fine until they
> swapped in the new one.  Here's the weird part-The holley has a
> separate tach wire that you use if you have the vacuum advance
> distributor that doesn't get used when you use the elec. dist.  After
> the thing dies, they disconnect the 4-wire connector from the dist.
> and isntall the tach wire onto the negative side of the coil.  The
> thing starts right up.  They shut it off immidiately and reconnect the
> 4-wire connector and it runs for another 43 minutes.  
> 
> Any ideas?  I told them to nix the ESC and try it.  
> 
> Andy
> 
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