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Patton
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Hi guys, sorry for the double post, but I am a little stymied about this, and the more minds helping me figure this out, the better.
Today, I was going to drive the car to a Gulf Coast Healey Club meeting for the first time. I live about as far out as you can live in the suburbs of Houston so I the trip was 25 miles each way.
I thought that I had the car prepared fine for the trip, but a problem reoccurred that I just addressed. After 21 miles of great running, the car sputtered, went about a mile further, and died. I was able to coast to a side road and a very nice guy let me park the car in his driveway and actually drove me the couple of miles left to the meeting.
This acted exactly like it did when the rotor went out last month (see previous posts). I got to the meeting, asked for help. Several people offered, and when the meeting was over, we caravaned to my car. After about 5 minutes, it turned out that I was right, and the brand new rotor had burned through.
We'll a spare was lent to me, the car fired right up, and a member volunteered to follow me home. We got about 15 miles, and the car sputtered, then died. I was able to get it to a funeral home parking lot, and we tried to figure out what to do.
We when to the AutoZone around the corner, and they of course did not have a rotor. We scratched our heads and came up with two ideas. Make a insulating gasket out of the heavy duty rubber insulating tape, and coating the inside of the rotor and the rotor shaft with dielectric grease (probably misspelled, the white type that prevent electric conductivity). We bought the stuff to do both and applied it to the bad rotor. I am happy to say that the car finished the last 10 miles without problems. I will now carry both in the tool kit, and am considering coating the inside of all future rotors as well.
I will say one thing, despite the trouble, it was an adventure, and the car did pull into it driveway under its own power.
The question now, is why is this happening.
Last fall, the day the car was being loaded to come down here, it mysteriously died. The shop replaced all of the ignition parts that they had put on it and it started right up. I am betting that was the rotor as well.
This means that this car has had at least 3, and probably 4 rotors burn up in about 200 miles. I know that there is a bad batch of Lucas rotors out there, but they can't all have been from that batch. My ignition system is stock, what would cause an otherwise strong running car to eat rotors?
I have be told to order the rotors that Carquest sells as the are higher quality than the Lucas, so I am ordering 3 of those (a 60 mile supply the way this is going!!!)
Thanks, especially to Roger, Roger, Wade, Vince, Pat, and everyone else who helped get me home, and Mike for stopping to help on his first meeting run!
Patton
Today, I was going to drive the car to a Gulf Coast Healey Club meeting for the first time. I live about as far out as you can live in the suburbs of Houston so I the trip was 25 miles each way.
I thought that I had the car prepared fine for the trip, but a problem reoccurred that I just addressed. After 21 miles of great running, the car sputtered, went about a mile further, and died. I was able to coast to a side road and a very nice guy let me park the car in his driveway and actually drove me the couple of miles left to the meeting.
This acted exactly like it did when the rotor went out last month (see previous posts). I got to the meeting, asked for help. Several people offered, and when the meeting was over, we caravaned to my car. After about 5 minutes, it turned out that I was right, and the brand new rotor had burned through.
We'll a spare was lent to me, the car fired right up, and a member volunteered to follow me home. We got about 15 miles, and the car sputtered, then died. I was able to get it to a funeral home parking lot, and we tried to figure out what to do.
We when to the AutoZone around the corner, and they of course did not have a rotor. We scratched our heads and came up with two ideas. Make a insulating gasket out of the heavy duty rubber insulating tape, and coating the inside of the rotor and the rotor shaft with dielectric grease (probably misspelled, the white type that prevent electric conductivity). We bought the stuff to do both and applied it to the bad rotor. I am happy to say that the car finished the last 10 miles without problems. I will now carry both in the tool kit, and am considering coating the inside of all future rotors as well.
I will say one thing, despite the trouble, it was an adventure, and the car did pull into it driveway under its own power.
The question now, is why is this happening.
Last fall, the day the car was being loaded to come down here, it mysteriously died. The shop replaced all of the ignition parts that they had put on it and it started right up. I am betting that was the rotor as well.
This means that this car has had at least 3, and probably 4 rotors burn up in about 200 miles. I know that there is a bad batch of Lucas rotors out there, but they can't all have been from that batch. My ignition system is stock, what would cause an otherwise strong running car to eat rotors?
I have be told to order the rotors that Carquest sells as the are higher quality than the Lucas, so I am ordering 3 of those (a 60 mile supply the way this is going!!!)
Thanks, especially to Roger, Roger, Wade, Vince, Pat, and everyone else who helped get me home, and Mike for stopping to help on his first meeting run!
Patton
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