Few days ago I have little incidence that make me quite confuse… The Dolly Parton suddenly (name of the landy) stopped, no sign, no clue no warning, no coughing, no nothing… it just stop dead, it happened just after I refill the fuel… So there is no way it lack of fuel.
So what to do..? having landy for few years you kind of know what is potentially went wrong.. so I did few several tests… hope that it will help you in the future if you have the same case…
Something that we need to understand is… rarely landy stop dead because of the engine.. most of the times it caused by two things:
- Electrical problem
- Fuel problem…
So I run few test as below (click for a bigger picture):
Now from this test I know that there is three possibilities:
- The coil is dead
- the distributor is dead / faulty
- and no current from key starter
But which one is it..? the easiest is to check “whether there is current from the key starter…” by jump starting the coil like the following…:
The engine can not be started… so I still left with three possible problems… but I know for sure that either the coil and or distributor is faulty… so next step is to open the distributor cap… mine is using electronic distributor and …
I thought that this is the end of story, so I disconnect the cable jumper… like so..
Alas.. after disconnected, the engine is dead again.. means that there is other potential problem causing the engine dead.
First thing first need to check the fuse by using test light.. and sure enough I found out that the second fuse from the top is dead… and I have to improvise the fuse using cable strand like the following…
And I pray that no other problem… turning the key starter… and voila… I hear the engine purring happily… :), thats it folks… Happy landying… I hope never happened to you but if your landy start playing tricks.. you know what to do
Cheers for now..
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