Well, after a year of silence, I decided yesterday to take another crack at the old MB that was sitting silent and dusty in the garage. I had put on new wires, rotor, cap, plus Petronix 1 and Flamethrower coil, and now I also had a good strobe light. Fuel gauge read empty, so I dumped 5 gallons of fresh gasoline in the car and tried starting it. And you guessed it, after some sputtering it came to life. The word dumbfounded decribed it best.

I suspect I had a mix of gas and water in the tank that caused the problem.

Moral of the story: make sure you have plenty of real gas in the tank before troubleshooting.

Bert (who is very happy)

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'70 111 280SE/c 3.5 (4 spd manual) - sold
'63 MGB
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