help truck dying while driving

68bronco289 · Aug 14, 2012

My bronco will be cruising down the road just fine and then all of the sudden dead as a hammer and I push in the clutch turn the key off and restart and drive on. Its really odd just put the ignitor and flame thrower coil and a new holley 2300 2bbl but it was doing it before with the points and old carb so I'm unsure right now what it could be electrical or fuel related.

lodgeskins · Aug 14, 2012

Have you cleaned out your gas tank? I had that problem once and I was sucking up a piece of solder from an old tank repair. When it died, the chunk would drop and I'd be fine until it got sucked up again.

Timmy390 · Aug 14, 2012

Had that issue on the Mach 1 after installing MSD ignition. Truned out to be a loose ground (bad connection) where I spliced into the wireing harness.

Tim

shamu · Aug 14, 2012

Timmy390 said:
Had that issue on the Mach 1 after installing MSD ignition. Truned out to be a loose ground (bad connection) where I spliced into the wireing harness.

Tim

Good idea and if that does not work try running a jumper wire from the + side of the battery to the + side of the coil. Remember the truck will stay running until you remove the new test wire.
Good luck and keep us posted.
Remember the test wire can knock the crap out of you so take your time and be careful.

68bronco289 · Aug 14, 2012

well the gas tank was an issue in the past spent a week cleaning everything really well and have had no problem with junk in the tank since, but ill check. The ground wire being loose could be a posibility when I got the bronco a few years ago there was no ground to the battery from the frame and when I would turn on the lights it would boil the battery over so I'll also check on that. Thanks gentlemen

dmill33 · Aug 14, 2012

ignition control module

I had literally the exact same thing happen to mine last year. Turned out to be a wire connected to the ignition control module.

Jerseydevil · Aug 14, 2012

I had a very dimilar problem in my 98 prelude, turned out the ignition switch was bad. I was obvious once I removed it.

wesleydax · Aug 14, 2012

ignition switch was my problem. when it dyes wiggle the key.

68bronco289 · Aug 14, 2012

thankyou men I wondered about the ignition switch it is a oreilly's special not put in by me previous owner did it thanks again for the feed back

blamejane · Aug 15, 2012

I'b be interested to know what you find.

Bulletman · Aug 15, 2012

I'm betting a bad ground or loose wire. If it's carbureted and running out of gas it wouldn't restart that easily. You are most likely losing spark to the gremlin. Good luck finding it.

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