As usual for me, this will be long winded…
Problem:
The previous owners, God bless them, have made a hellish mess of many things on my 40 but especially the electrical system. At any given time, I would loose head lights, blinkers, tail lights, etc… but now a new problem has cropped up. After the 40 gets warm, after about 10 minutes of driving, it will sputter and die while driving at a constant speed. It will not die while shifting through the gears or while idling. It will die when under a constant load, like driving down the highway or frontage road. When it dies, all I have to do is turn off the ignition key, and then start it back up. It will start just fine and run for another minute or so then die again.
With all of the other electrical problems including the constant battery drain that will kill it in two days, I assumed that the problem lay there. The previous owner had installed on of those Painless wiring harnesses complete with the modern fuse box yet the original fuse box was still there and being used. After tearing into the wiring with a vengeance, I discovered that the Painless kit was only hooked up to the electric choke on my Weber with a constant power and the rest of the wires were just hanging out under the dash. I ripped out the Painless harness along with a dozen other wires that who knows what were for that were spliced into every conceivable place, clean up the factory wires, ran my own ignition hot wire for the choke, worked over the factory fuse box with a Dremel and sand paper, bundled and tied all of the wires nicely into wire looms and tested everything. That solved all of my issues with the lights and six hours later life was good.
This did not solve the issue with the Cruiser dieing under constant load. Do you have any suggestions? Could it be some type of ignition module in the distributor or some other ignition part getting too hot and loosing conductivity?
Problem:
The previous owners, God bless them, have made a hellish mess of many things on my 40 but especially the electrical system. At any given time, I would loose head lights, blinkers, tail lights, etc… but now a new problem has cropped up. After the 40 gets warm, after about 10 minutes of driving, it will sputter and die while driving at a constant speed. It will not die while shifting through the gears or while idling. It will die when under a constant load, like driving down the highway or frontage road. When it dies, all I have to do is turn off the ignition key, and then start it back up. It will start just fine and run for another minute or so then die again.
With all of the other electrical problems including the constant battery drain that will kill it in two days, I assumed that the problem lay there. The previous owner had installed on of those Painless wiring harnesses complete with the modern fuse box yet the original fuse box was still there and being used. After tearing into the wiring with a vengeance, I discovered that the Painless kit was only hooked up to the electric choke on my Weber with a constant power and the rest of the wires were just hanging out under the dash. I ripped out the Painless harness along with a dozen other wires that who knows what were for that were spliced into every conceivable place, clean up the factory wires, ran my own ignition hot wire for the choke, worked over the factory fuse box with a Dremel and sand paper, bundled and tied all of the wires nicely into wire looms and tested everything. That solved all of my issues with the lights and six hours later life was good.
This did not solve the issue with the Cruiser dieing under constant load. Do you have any suggestions? Could it be some type of ignition module in the distributor or some other ignition part getting too hot and loosing conductivity?
