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Old 11-16-2009, 01:29 AM
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Default Breakdowns on the road

I have been driving my cobra since 1986. It has failed lots of times. The first few were stupid things, like the choke on the carburetor was not fixed and the door closed, flooding the engine. Or a fuse blew.

I had three electric fuel pumps quit and strand me. Now I run two of them and can always switch to the spare. I've had four or five quit since then, once in the middle of nowhere, West Texas and I was really happy could push that switch and keep going.

I bought a used MSD 6AL ignition on eBay and that quit once. However, I have my old MSD 6A connected too and can throw a switch to keep going.

I have run lots of tires down to the sooth part and have had lots of flats. The fix-a-flat cans have always gotten me where I'm going. On one rally, we were up in the mountains and both tires on the left side were flat. I was really glad I had 3 cans with me. On another rally, I got a 3 inch gash on the right front tire. I would not have believed it if someone had told me the flat fixer would work but it did! It took 4 cans to get 100 miles to the end of the rally and then home.

Recently, my Holley carburetor overflowed and stalled the engine. It took a while to figure out that it was caused by another fuel pump problem.

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