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daveymc29 · 05-13-2019, 09:18 PM

My roadster would miss badly when I was on a trip to TX. I had all kinds of help changing gaskets, carbs and distributors. It was so bad I was towed part way and yet we never found the culprit. Then on the way back it somehow seemed okay and I made it home and a year or so later It suddenly did the same thing again and I had two guys helping me sort it out. As I raised the hood on the drivers side one of them saw my alternator and as he said, "Oh, you have an alternator," he reached in and touched it. The wire to the fuse fell out of the crimped holder that holds the wire to the outlet on the alternator. No more problem after I crimped the holder a bit tighter. That was in 2008, Still working well.

05-13-2019, 09:18 PM	#88
daveymc29 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Danville, CA Posts: 1,554	Re: Terriable backfiring My roadster would miss badly when I was on a trip to TX. I had all kinds of help changing gaskets, carbs and distributors. It was so bad I was towed part way and yet we never found the culprit. Then on the way back it somehow seemed okay and I made it home and a year or so later It suddenly did the same thing again and I had two guys helping me sort it out. As I raised the hood on the drivers side one of them saw my alternator and as he said, "Oh, you have an alternator," he reached in and touched it. The wire to the fuse fell out of the crimped holder that holds the wire to the outlet on the alternator. No more problem after I crimped the holder a bit tighter. That was in 2008, Still working well.