<VV> Need Help - Spyder - SOLVED !!

Ron ronh at owt.com
Sun May 20 23:45:21 EDT 2007


That's why we just finished a 600 + mile round trip to the Northwest 
Econorun this weekend with real points in the distributor, and no problems. 
It is very beautiful around Albany, Oregon and we really enjoyed the tour of 
covered bridges on Friday.  It was a great weekend.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Campbell" <deltainc at grm.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Need Help - Spyder - SOLVED !!


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <rbkj84 at comcast.net>
> Subject: <VV> Need Help - Spyder - SOLVED !!
>
>
>> Larry and Lonny:
>> So - here's the next question - What causes the Petronix to fail and how
> did it fail over a period of time - several starts and then engine cut 
> out?
>> Ron
> *************
> Electronics failure ????  I always thought that was designed into those
> gadgets ...(g).
> Hey, was that a Persnickety I or a Persnickety II ?   This could be GOD
> giving you a chance to move up to a model II (g).
> .... 8 years is not bad for a 1995 era electronic device ... one failure
> mode might be from vibrational stress on the solder joints ...  many 
> circuit
> boards about then were switching to surface mount, and now we are finding
> out there is a potential problem with vibrational failure ...  anyway, I 
> am
> in awe of electronics working at all ... anything with thousands of teensy
> things that go pop! and bang! for a living maybe deserve the "cup half 
> full"
> approach ...
>
> Reargards, ken campbell, iower
>
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