John S's Journal

Hopped in the GT yesterday with my clubs riding shotgun since it’s that time of year to play some golf. Decided to take the freeway as opposed to the back roads and it almost turned in to a disaster. Running great until about a mile-ish to go to the course and it started struggling to maintain speed. I limped to the golf course and decided to let it sit for awhile while I hit some balls on the range. It seemed like it was starved for fuel during the last bit of the trip into the parking lot so that’s what I focused on when I opened the bonnet. The clear glass filter showed some particles but overall, nothing that would cause too much of a flow issue. After sitting for about an hour, it started but was still running rough and really struggled to build and maintain any rpm’s especially on the uphill sections of the back roads. I was very thankful when I crested the last hill and had a downhill stretch back into Eugene where after cruising slowly through a stop sign it died as soon as I turned onto a side street and rolled to s stop.
I didn’t have much in the way of tools but enough to pull the Cooper’s cans and check the float bowls for debris or other issues. Nothing wrong there so I pulled the cap off the distributor and didn’t see anything amiss. Plug wires were snug but couldn’t pull the plugs without a few tools. A call to my wife for her to bring a few things and then started chatting with a guy about the car. I was in the process of discussing what I had done to the car when I noticed a coil wire had come off. It was probably barely on when the trouble started and I might have finished it off when I reached in to take the cap off. Plugged it back in and told the guy that it’s going to fire right up and that’s exactly what it did. Called the wife back and told her to look for me and the car ran perfectly once again.

Today, it got a bath and I dried it off on a nice spirited drive out in the country. Still no speedometer but I’ve been looking at the Speedhut website and have one all picked out. About ready to pull the trigger…