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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